The Subversion of the Male Tradition in Crime Fiction: Liane Moriarty’s Little Lies

Álvarez, Elena Avanzas

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-69338-5_10

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Crime Fiction in the Caribbean

Evans

2024

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Crime Fiction in the Caribbean is the first academic book to focus on crime fiction by anglophone Caribbean writers. Covering novels set in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados, Grenada, and Haiti, it explores how contemporary writers experiment with the crime genre in order to convey, contextualize, and comment on crime and justice in Caribbean countries. Crime fiction is presented as a versatile mode of writing that can be politically engaged, and that—in a Caribbean context—can expose power structures embedded in the region’s multi-layered history of colonial conquest, genocide of Indigenous populations, plantation agriculture, transatlantic slavery, and indentured labour. The book considers how fiction by anglophone Caribbean writers not only reflects upon the social realities of crime and crime control in the Caribbean, but also at times contests or complicates scholarly, popular, and legal perspectives. It argues that through their engagement with the crime genre, these writers raise pressing questions about what constitutes crime and justice in a Caribbean context, and about accountability. Looking beyond the traditional focus of crime fiction and criminology on individual acts of wrongdoing, their fiction highlights systemic social harms which are rooted in the region’s colonial past. Reading crime fiction through the lens of criminological research, this book brings the study of literary writing into scholarly debate on crime in the Caribbean. At the same time, it extends the global turn in crime fiction studies, focusing on a region that has been sidelined even in studies which examine the genre’s international dimensions.

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