Download or read book The Postcolonial Detective written by E. Christian and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-01-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens to detective fiction when the detective is 'post-colonial', a marginalized native or settler in a country recovering from colonialism? Post-colonial detection is an exciting hybrid of western-influenced police methods and plot conventions and indigenous cultural insights and wisdom in exotic settings. An introduction to the peculiarities of the post-colonial detective and to post-colonial theory establishes a context in which to view more than a dozen notable detectives and authors from around the world.