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| Title: | Life is a thriller: investigating African crime fiction |
| Editors: | Oed, Anja Matzke, Christine |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Issue: | 30 |
| Pages: | 246 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Mainzer Beiträge zur Afrika-Forschung |
| City of publisher: | Köln |
| Publisher: | Rüdiger Köppe Verlag |
| ISBN: | 9783896458308 |
| Geographic terms: | Subsaharan Africa Angola Ghana Kenya Nigeria Senegal South Africa Tanzania |
| Subjects: | crime novels writers literary criticism conference papers (form) 2008 interviews (form) |
| Abstract: | This book is an outcome of the 9th International Janheinz Jahn Symposium on African Literatures, held in 2008 at the Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany, and entitled 'Beyond 'Murder by magic''. The volume investigates African crime fiction in its broadest possible scope, and from a multiplicity of perspectives. Contributions range from general national overviews to close readings of individual works; analyses include narratological, political, linguistic and cultural studies approaches. Together these papers cover crime narratives in seven languages - Afrikaans, English, Ewe, French, Portuguese, Swahili, and Yorůbá - by writers such as Muhammed Said Abdulla, K?'lá Akínlŕdé, Boubacar Boris Diop, F. Kwasi Fiawoo, Monica Genya, Rodwell Musekiwa Machingauta, Tony Marinho, Deon Meyer, Ben R. Mtobwa, Pepetela, Aristablus Elvis Musiba and Adaora Lily Ulasi. Also included are interviews with Deon Meyer, Ben R. Mtobwa, Angela Makholwa, and Meshack Masondo. Contributors: Ranka Primorac, Matthias Krings, Geoffrey V. Davis, Doris Wieser, Matthew J. Christensen, James Gibbs, Susanne Gehrmann, Anja Oed, Katja Meintel, Manfred Loimeier, Mikhail D. Gromov, Said Khamis, Uta Reuster-Jahn, Alina N. Rinkanya, Karola Hoffmann and Christine Matzke. [ASC Leiden abstract] |