| Description |
1 online resource (289 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Negotiations of National Identity in Canadian Crime Fiction -- Canadian Facts and Stats: A Primer -- Crime and Detective Fiction: A Primer -- Text Selection -- Who Dies, Who Kills, and Who Detects? -- Organizing Principles -- A Note On Methodology -- Part I Historical Confrontations -- 2 John McFetridge and the Legacy of French/English Tensions -- Rewriting History Through Philosophical Anachronism -- Liminality as a Response to the Two Solitudes -- Conclusion |
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3 Giles Blunt and the Canadian North -- Confronting the Gorgeous, Perilous, Almost Supernatural North -- Beyond the Two Solitudes -- The Contamination and Containment of the Compromised Cop -- Conclusion -- 4 Thomas King and the Liminal Indigenous Detective -- No Heroes Or Villains -- No Climaxes, Conclusions, Or Judgments -- Conclusion -- 5 Ausma Zehanat Khan and Multiculturalism in Canada -- Grappling With Liminality, Empathy, and Contradiction -- Centering Love -- The Nearly Absent Elephant -- Conclusion -- 6 Canada and the American Dream: Linwood Barclay's Promise Falls Series |
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Rewriting the American Dream: Promises Rise and Fall -- American Guns: Police, Journalists, and the Broken Family -- Barclay's Parting Shot: Revenge in the Age of Social Media -- Conclusion -- Part II Canadian Genre Play -- 7 The Police Procedural: Registering Change With Peter Robinson's DCI Banks -- Gallows View: Peepers, STIs, and Independent Women -- Not Dark Yet: Human Trafficking, Revenge Plots, and Powerful Women -- Conclusion -- 8 The Amateur Detective: Gail Bowen's Joanne Kilbourn as Canadian Revisionist -- The Mother Detective: Exploring Generic and Temporal Paradoxes |
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The Academic Detective: The Education of the Professor-Detective -- The Kaleidoscopic Detective -- Conclusion -- 9 The Gay Private Eye: Anthony Bidulka's Hardboiled Romantic, Russell Quant -- Genre Hybridity: Queering the Hardboiled -- Gender Politics: Thinking Through the Heteronormative -- Mentorship: The Detective as Gay Mentor -- Conclusion -- 10 The Legal Thriller: Trauma and Resilience in Pamela Callow's Kate Lange Series -- The Pedagogical Potential of the Thriller at the Site of Gender Equity -- Personal and Professional Trauma in the Legal Thriller -- Traumascape and the Dark Double |
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Conclusion -- 11 The Postmodern Detective: Literary Detection in Timothy Findley and Carol Shields -- The Study of Lies in Findley -- The Study of Art in Shields -- Conclusion -- Part III Futuristic Explorations -- 12 Louise Penny's Cozy Exploration of Trauma and Temporality in the Anthropocene -- Revisiting Canada's Past: The Samuel Champlain Story -- Mentorship and Revisions: The Olivier Story -- Fragments of Time and Trauma: The Eco-Terrorist Plot -- Conclusion -- 13 Storytelling, Guilt, and Games in Margaret Atwood's Post-Apocalyptic Crime Fiction -- Spoiler Alert: Everybody Dies |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Genocide, Guilt, and Complicity |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781003852551 |
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1003852556 |
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