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In recent years, crime fiction has turned into an increasingly globalised genre. Women as well as writers from various ethnic communities and postcolonial contexts have been inscribing their perspectives into the genre, adapting and/or subverting what was initially part of the Western masculinist literary tradition. In this course we will analyse and compare crime novels from two different national and cultural contexts with a focus on race relations and the postcolonial condition: South African crime author Deon Meyer's Dead by Daybreak (English translation of the Afrikaans original), A Beautiful Place to Die by South African-born writer and filmmaker Malla Nunn (now a resident of Australia) and Scream Black Murder by Australian Aboriginal novelist Philip McLaren. Students will need to have read all texts by week 3 of the semester (will be tested).
Texts:
- Deon Meyer, Dead at Daybreak (2000; any paperback edition will do)
- Malla Nunn, A Beautiful Place to Die (2008; any paperback edition will do)
- Philip McLaren, Scream Black Murder (1995; currently out of print; a master copy will be available at Kopiersysteme Priebe, Segerothstr. 81)
- A course reader containing a selection of further texts, primary as well as secondary, will be available at Kopiersysteme Priebe, Segerothstr. 81 from April 13th, 2011.
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