Crime fiction, South Africa : a critical introduction

Title: Crime fiction, South Africa : a critical introduction
Creator: Naidu, Samantha
Date: 2013
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:26315
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/53743
Identifier: http://0-dx.doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1080/1013929X.2013.833416
Identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9456-8657
Description: Crime fiction is an emergent category in South African literary studies. This introduction positions South African crime fiction and its scholarship in a global lineage of crime and detective fiction. The survey addresses the question of its literary status as ‘highbrow’ or ‘lowbrow’. It also identifies and describes two distinct sub-genres of South African crime fiction: the crime thriller novel; and the literary detective novel. The argument is that South African crime fiction exhibits a unique capacity for social analysis: a capacity which is being optimised by authors and interrogated by scholars
Publisher: Southern African Literature and Culture Centre
Language: English
Relation: Naidu, Sam. (2013).Crime Fiction, South Africa: A Critical Introduction, Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, 25(2), pp. 124-135. http://0-dx.doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1080/1013929X.2013.833416

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