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Race and Religion in the Postcolonial British Detective Story - Ten Essays (Paperback)
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In 1929, Ronald Knox, a prominent member of the English Detection
Club, included in his tongue-in-cheek Ten Commandments for
Detective Novelists the rule that ?No Chinaman must figure in the
story.? In 1983, Ruth Rendell published Speaker of Mandarin,
reflecting not only a change in British detective fiction but also
a dramatic change in the British cultural landscape. Like much of
the rest of British popular culture, the detective novel became
more and more ethnically diverse and populated by characters with
increasingly varied religious backgrounds. The ten essays in this
work examine the changing nature of British detective fiction,
focusing on the shifting view of ?otherness? of such authors as
Rendell, Elizabeth George, Peter Ackroyd, Caroline Graham,
Christopher Brookmyer, Denise Mina, and John Mortimer. Unlike their
American counterparts, British detective writers have been until
recently, overwhelmingly white, and the essays here explore how
these authors delve into ethnic diversity within a historically
homogeneous culture. Religion has also played an important role in
the genre, ranging from the moral certainty of the early part of
the 20th century to the skepticism and hostility that is part of
contemporary fiction. How this transition was made and how it
reflects the changing nature of British culture are detailed here.
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