The first serious book-length study of crime writing in Canada, Detecting Canada contains thirteen essays on many of Canada's most popular crime writers. Genres examined range from the well-loved police procedural and the amateur sleuth to those less well known, such as anti-detection and contemporary noir novels.
The first serious book-length study of crime writing in Canada, Detecting Canada contains thirteen essays on many of Canada's most popular crime writers. Genres examined range from the well-loved police procedural and the amateur sleuth to those less well known, such as anti-detection and contemporary noir novels.
Jeannette Sloniowski is an associate professor in the Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film at Brock University. She is a series editor for the TV Milestones series at Wayne State University Press, author of several journal articles and four edited books including Documenting the Documentary, Slippery Pastimes: Reading the Popular in Canadian Culture (WLU Press, 2002), and Candid Eyes. Marilyn Rose is a professor in the Department of English at Brock University. She specializes in modern and contemporary short fiction and poetry as well as detective fiction. She has published articles and book chapters in these areas and, with Jeannette Sloniowski, created and maintains CrimeFictionCanada, a scholarly database dedicated to the study of detective fiction in English around the world.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Detecting Canada: Essays on Canadian Crime Fiction, Television, and Film, edited by Jeannette Sloniowski and Marilyn Rose 2. Introduction Jeannette Sloniowski and Marilyn Rose 3. History and Theory 4. 1. Coca-Colonialists Write Back: Localizing the Global in Canadian Crime Fiction Beryl Langer 5. 2. Canadian Crime Writing in English David Skene-Melvin 6. Essays on Fiction 7. 3. Canadian Psycho: Genre, Nation, and Colonial Violence in Michael Slade's Gothic RCMP Procedurals Brian Johnson 8. 4. Northern Procedures: Policing the Nation in Giles Blunt's The Delicate Storm Manina Jones 9. 5. Revisioning the Dick: Reading Thomas King's Thumps DreadfulWater Mysteries Jennifer Andrews and Priscilla L. Walton 10. 6. Generic Play and Gender Trouble in Peter Robinson's In a Dry Season Jeannette Sloniowski 11. 7. A Colder Kind of Gender Politics: Intersections of Feminism and Detection in Gail Bowen's Joanne Kilbourn Series Pamela Bedore 12. 8. Queer Eye for the Private Eye: Homonationalism and the Regulation of Queer Difference in Anthony Bidulka's Russell Quant Mystery Series Péter Balogh 13. 9. Under/Cover: Strategies of Detection and Evasion in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace Marilyn Rose 14. Essays on Television 15. 10. Televising Toronto in the 1960s: Wojeck and the Urban Crime Genre Sarah A. Matheson 16. 11. North of Quality? ""Quality"" Television and the Suburban Crimeworld of Durham County Lindsay Steenberg and Yvonne Tasker 17. 12. Mounties and Metaphysics in Canadian Film and Television Patricia Gruben 18. Contributors 19. Index
1. Detecting Canada: Essays on Canadian Crime Fiction, Television, and Film, edited by Jeannette Sloniowski and Marilyn Rose 2. Introduction Jeannette Sloniowski and Marilyn Rose 3. History and Theory 4. 1. Coca-Colonialists Write Back: Localizing the Global in Canadian Crime Fiction Beryl Langer 5. 2. Canadian Crime Writing in English David Skene-Melvin 6. Essays on Fiction 7. 3. Canadian Psycho: Genre, Nation, and Colonial Violence in Michael Slade's Gothic RCMP Procedurals Brian Johnson 8. 4. Northern Procedures: Policing the Nation in Giles Blunt's The Delicate Storm Manina Jones 9. 5. Revisioning the Dick: Reading Thomas King's Thumps DreadfulWater Mysteries Jennifer Andrews and Priscilla L. Walton 10. 6. Generic Play and Gender Trouble in Peter Robinson's In a Dry Season Jeannette Sloniowski 11. 7. A Colder Kind of Gender Politics: Intersections of Feminism and Detection in Gail Bowen's Joanne Kilbourn Series Pamela Bedore 12. 8. Queer Eye for the Private Eye: Homonationalism and the Regulation of Queer Difference in Anthony Bidulka's Russell Quant Mystery Series Péter Balogh 13. 9. Under/Cover: Strategies of Detection and Evasion in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace Marilyn Rose 14. Essays on Television 15. 10. Televising Toronto in the 1960s: Wojeck and the Urban Crime Genre Sarah A. Matheson 16. 11. North of Quality? ""Quality"" Television and the Suburban Crimeworld of Durham County Lindsay Steenberg and Yvonne Tasker 17. 12. Mounties and Metaphysics in Canadian Film and Television Patricia Gruben 18. Contributors 19. Index
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