- Title
- Transnational Crime in Deon Meyer’s Devil’s Peak and Santiago Gamboa’s Night Prayers:
- Creator
- Naidu, Samantha
- Date Issued
- 2020
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- text
- Type
- book
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/163881
- Identifier
- vital:41077
- Identifier
- ISBN 9783030534134
- Identifier
- https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1007/978-3-030-53413-4_2
- Description
- Naidu argues that transnational crime wreaks havoc on global, national and personal levels in the postcolonial crime novels Devil’s Peak (2007) by South African author Deon Meyer and Night Prayers (2016) by Colombian author Santiago Gamboa. As postcolonial crime novels, they critique sociopolitical instability and corruption harking back to colonial times. Using mobility studies, Naidu interrogates the novels’ rendering of complex relations between the local and the global, and the past and the present. Despite stylistic and generic differences, both novels engage with the pervasive, transnational nature of criminal syndicates and current crimes which are a result of turbulent and unjust histories. Naidu examines the mobility of hapless victims, postcolonial anti-detectives and subversive heroines and comments on the ironic hope afforded by such figures.
- Format
- 16 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Naidu, S., 2020. Transnational Crime in Deon Meyer’s Devil’s Peak and Santiago Gamboa’s Night Prayers. In Transnational Crime Fiction (pp. 45-61). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
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