Anglophone African Detective Fiction 1940-2020: The State, the Citizen, and the Sovereign Ideal

Matthew J. Christensen

doi:10.1017/9781805432425

Anglophone African Detective Fiction 1940-2020

The State, the Citizen, and the Sovereign Ideal

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Matthew J. Christensen, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: May 2024
Print publication year:: 2024
Online ISBN:: 9781805432425
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781805432425

Subjects:: Literature, Literary Theory
Series:: African Articulations

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Traces detective fiction's history both as a literary form and a mode of critical exploration of the fraught sovereignties of the African state and its citizens.

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Anglophone African Detective Fiction 1940-2020

The State, the Citizen, and the Sovereign Ideal

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-vii

List of Illustrations
pp viii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-xii

Introduction
pp 1-26

Part 1 - Africanizing Detective Fiction’s Un/Sovereign Subjects
pp 27-28

1 - Dispossession, Rescue, and the Sovereign Self in the Colonial-Era Detective Story
pp 29-58

2 - Sovereign States: Police Investigators, Secret Agents, and Sleuthing Citizens after Independence
pp 59-92

3 - Decolonization Arrested
pp 93-112

Part 2 - Neoliberal Noir
pp 113-114

4 - Neoliberal Noir
pp 115-142

5 - Seriality, Stasis, and the Neoliberal State
pp 143-168

6 - Managed Risk and the Deadly Allure of Transparency
pp 169-184

Conclusion: The Future Imperfect
pp 185-192

An Anglophone African Detective Fiction Bibliography, 1940–2023
pp 193-200

Bibliography
pp 201-218

Index
pp 219-231

Miscellaneous Endmatter
pp 232-232

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