- Title
- Fears and desires in South African crime fiction
- Creator
- Naidu, Samantha
- Date Issued
- 2013
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- Article
- Identifier
- vital:26323
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/53765
- Identifier
- http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03057070.2013.826070
- Identifier
- https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9456-8657
- Description
- This article is a review of a burgeoning literary genre, South African crime fiction, as much as it is a review of specific texts. First, for the purposes of contextualisation and historicisation, an overview of the primary literature is provided. Then criticism and theories of extant crime fiction in mainly the UK and USA, of which South African crime fiction is a descendent, are outlined. This outline is followed by descriptions of two sub-genres (the crime thriller novel and the literary detective novel). Two exemplar texts, Devil’s Peak (2007) and Lost Ground (2011) are then reviewed. The artistic merit of the respective sub-genres and their capacity for social analysis is also considered. The article ends with some brief inferences and the claim that the credibility and heft of this popular literary genre have been established
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Naidu, Sam. (2013).Fears and Desires in South African Crime Fiction, Journal of Southern African Studies, 39(3), pp. 727-738. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03057070.2013.826070
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