Anglophone African Detective Fiction 1940-2020

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Anglophone African Detective Fiction 1940-2020

The State, the Citizen, and the Sovereign Ideal

Christensen, Professor Matthew J.

James Currey

03/2026

244

Mole

Inglês

9781847013958

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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction

Part 1: Africanizing Detective Fiction's Un/Sovereign Subjects
1. Dispossession, Rescue, and the Sovereign Self in the Colonial-Era Detective Story
2. Sovereign States: Police Investigators, Secret Agents, and Sleuthing Citizens after
Independence
3. Decolonization Arrested
Part 2: Neoliberal Noir
4. Neoliberal Noir
5. Seriality, Stasis, and the Neoliberal State
6. Managed Risk and the Deadly Allure of Transparency

Conclusion: Detective Fiction and the Future Imperfect
An Anglophone African Detective Fiction Bibliography, 1940-2023
Bibliography
Index
Anglophone African Literature; African Detective Literature; African Crime Fiction; Neoliberal Noir; Detective Literature; Literature History; Crime Novel Studies