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Criminal Cities

Name: Criminal Cities
Brand: UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS
SKU: 9780813949567
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESSISBN: 9780813949567

The Postcolonial Novel and Cathartic Crime

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By Molly Slavin
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS
Release Date: September 13, 2023
Format: HARDBACK
Pages: 282

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Why does crime feature at the center of so many postcolonial novels set in major cities? This book interrogates the connections that can be found between narratives of crime, cities, and colonialism to bring to light the ramifications of this literary preoccupation, as well as possibilities for cultural, aesthetic, and political catharsis.Examining late-twentieth- and twenty-first-century novels set in London, Belfast, Mumbai, Sydney, Johannesburg, Nairobi, and urban areas in the Palestinian West Bank, Criminal Cities considers the marks left by neocolonialism and imperialism on the structures, institutions, and cartographies of twenty-first-century cities. Molly Slavin suggests that literary depictions of urban crime can offer unique capabilities for literary characters, as well as readers, to process and negotiate that lingering colonial violence, while also providing avenues for justice and forms of reparations.

Molly Slavin is Assistant Professor of English at Clark Atlanta University. Her work has appeared in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, The Global South, and The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association.

Preface: Atlanta as Postcolonial Criminal City Introduction: Towards a Theory of Cathartic Crime 1. "The Phenomenon of Walking": Mapping Postcolonial Criminal London 2. "Crime is Crime is Crime": Belfast and Universalizing Narratives 3. Whiteness, Historical Fiction, and Australian Cities 4. "Shot Through with Crime": Bombay After Mumbai 5. Neoliberal Criminality: Post-Apartheid Johannesburg 6. This Line Created a Country: Nairobi, Father and Son 7. His Memory Resists Ordering: The Difficulty of Catharsis in Palestine Coda: "Vestiges of Empire": Exit West, Brexit, and Migration Notes

"There are many things to admire about this book. It is capacious in scope, while the close readings in the case studies provide instructive commentary on novels both highly canonical and less well known. It will make a significant contribution to postcolonial studies of criminality and crime fiction." - Peter Kalliney, University of Kentucky, author of The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature

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