{"id":4087,"date":"2013-08-14T14:41:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T14:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crimeculture.com\/?page_id=4087"},"modified":"2021-04-13T17:00:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T17:00:26","slug":"detecting-detection","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeculture.com\/?page_id=4087","title":{"rendered":"Detecting Detection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peter Baker (ed), Detecting Detection: International Perspectives on the Uses of a Plot<\/em>, New York: Continuum June 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Detecting_Detection\"<\/a>Having long ago outgrown the confines of the English country house murder mystery, the detective has travelled widely, adapting himself to other cultures and genres.\u00a0The essays presented by Peter Baker in Detecting Detection<\/i> deploy cross-cultural comparisons to illuminate the many variant forms of detective narratives and to bring to the fore the moral and political functions of such narratives.<\/p>\n

Contemporary critics have become increasingly fascinated by the detective’s versatility and by the diversity of detection itself. \u00a0The nine excellent essays in Detecting Detection<\/i> astutely consider the reasons for the\u00a0detection plot’s\u00a0persistence and proliferation,\u00a0exploring in detail the ways in which it has been transformed across cultures and incorporated in a variety of other narrative forms. They illuminate its ability to raise difficult questions about moral and ethical choices, guilt, political repression, personal and national trauma, witnessing, judgment and belief \u2013 and about \u201cthe elements of the global mystery of the functioning of the world and society\u201d.<\/p>\n

Detecting Detection<\/em>\u00a0is one of the most thought-provoking studies of the genre to be published in recent years. Highly recommended.<\/p>\n

The editor writes:<\/p>\n

“We indulge our fascination with detection in many ways, only some of which occur in the detective story. In fact, modern fiction regularly uses elements of a detective narrative to tell another story altogether, to engage characters, narrators, and readers with questions of identity, with examinations of moral and ethical reasoning, with critiques of social and political injustices, and with the metaphysics of meaning itself. Detective plots cross cultural and national boundaries and occur in different ways and different genres. Taken together, they suggest important contemporary understandings of who and what we are, how and what we aspire to become. Detecting Detection gathers writing from the UK, North and South America, Europe, and Asia to draw together instances of the detective plot in contemporary fiction. It is unique not only in addressing the theme-a recurring one in modern literature-but in tracking the interest in detectives and detection across international borders.”<\/p>\n

Detecting Detection <\/em>is available in paperback from Amazon<\/a> and from\u00a0Bloomsbury Publishing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

CONTENTS<\/p>\n

1. The Detection Plot as a Means of Testimony in Ann-Marie MacDonald\u2019s The Way the Crow Flies<\/i><\/p>\n

Heta Pyrh\u00f6nen<\/p>\n

2. Is The Savage Detectives<\/i> A Detective Story?<\/p>\n

Peter Baker<\/p>\n

3. Detectivism as a Means of Resistance in Juan Marse’s El embrujo de Shanghai<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Anna-Maria Medina<\/p>\n

4. Two Men Walk into a Bar<\/p>\n

Michelle Robinson<\/p>\n

5. Espionage and the War on Secrecy and Terror in Graham Greene and Beyond<\/p>\n

Sofia Ahlberg<\/p>\n

6. The Stories We All Tell: The Function of Language and Knowledge in Julia Kristeva\u2019s Novel Possessions<\/i><\/p>\n

Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis<\/p>\n

7. Zen Keytsch: Mystery Handymen with Dragon Tattoos<\/p>\n

Sheng-Mai Ma<\/p>\n

8. Knowing the Unknowable: Detecting Metaphysics and Religion in Crime Fiction<\/p>\n

Kim Toft Hansen<\/p>\n

9. African Initiation Narratives and the Modern Detective Novel<\/p>\n

Amadou Kon\u00e9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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