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03001aam a2200409 i 4500 001 EE5D1A321DF111EDA8BEF4A423ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220817010036 008 220531s2021 sa b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022372559 020 $a 1869144805 020 $a 9781869144807 035 $a (OCoLC)1273670199 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OI@ $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d ZCU $d EEM $d YDX $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a f-sa--- 050 00 $a PN56.C7 $b N35 2021 082 04 $a 809.3872 $2 23 100 1 $a Naicker, Kamil, $e author. 245 10 $a Return to the scene of the crime : $b the returnee detective and postcolonial crime fiction / $c Kamil Naicker. 264 1 $a Pietermaritzburg, South Africa : $b University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, $c 2021. 300 $a xi, 186 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "At once disturbing and perversely comforting, the crime novel has historically been used to curtail social anxieties through the 'open and shut case' of its narrative form. But what happens to that form in a world where guilt and innocence cannot be so easily assigned? Return to the Scene of the Crime takes on the trope of the investigator who returns to the postcolony on a quest for knowledge. In tandem with solving the case, they must also grapple with the complexities of their own origins. Kamil Naicker shows how five authors defy generic expectation in order to illustrate the complexity of personal identity, transitional justice and civil violence in the postcolonial world. Bringing together novels set in South Africa, China, Guatemala, Sri Lanka and Somalia, this book makes a marked intervention in the field of literary studies, by both bringing to light the trend of the returnee figure and exploring the possibilities of world-making through the explosion of a familiar form."-- $c Cover p. 4. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-180) and index. 505 0 $a A case of arrested development : Kazuo Ishiguro's when we were orphans -- Investigating the pathologist: Michael Ondaatje's Anil's ghost -- Death of an idea : Francisco Goldman's the long night of white chickens -- A foreign country: Gillian Slovo's red dust -- Hijacked narrative: Nuruddin Farah's crossbones 650 0 $a Criminal investigation in literature $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a Crime in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00883038 650 7 $a Criminal investigation in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00883225 650 7 $a Detective and mystery stories. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00891461 650 7 $a Detectives in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00891589 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a Detective and mystery fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726581 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Critiques litteÌraires. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000001939 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117022223.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EE5D1A321DF111EDA8BEF4A423ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search