This thesis investigates the ways in which the crime novel genre has been taken up and adapted in order to depict and grapple with ideas of justice in selected postcolonial contexts. It approaches this investigation through the figure of the 'returnee detective' in these texts and determines how this recurring figure is used to mediate the reader's understanding of civil conflict in the postcolonial world.

ISBN: 97818691144807

Year of Publication: December 2021

Publisher: University of Kwa-Zulu Natal Press

Link: https://clarkesbooks.co.za/collections/december-2021/products/return-to-the-scene-of-the-crime-the-returnee-detective-and-postcolonial-crime-fiction