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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), Scream Black Murder by major Australian Aboriginal novelist Philip McLaren and P.M. Newton’s The Old School.
Note: P.M. Newton will be in Essen in May as Postcolonial Writer in Residence 2013; Philip McLaren is visiting Essen in April during his 2013 promotional tour. Details will be announced via Postcolonial Studies website.
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; used copies available via amazon)
- P.M. Newton, The Old School (2010) (will be ordered from Australia; copies will be available from Frau Forstreuter’s office at the beginning of the summer semester)
- A course reader containing a selection of secondary texts will be available at Kopiersysteme Priebe, Segerothstr. 81 from 8 April, 2013.
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