The Contemporary American Crime Novel: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Class
- ISBN-10
- 1579583520
- ISBN-13
- 9781579583521
- Category
- Literary Collections
- Pages
- 182
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Psychology Press
- Author
- Andrew Pepper
Description
As America's ethnic and racial character undergoes explosive transformation, its crime fictions trace, contest and celebrate the changes.The Contemporary American Crime Novelis an exciting book that offers a comprehensive review of recent developments in American crime fiction, exploring America's dynamic, fragmented multicultural landscape and how it has transformed the codes and conventions of the crime novel. Featured authors include James Ellroy, James Lee Burke, Sara Paretsky, Barbara Wilson, Chester Himes, Walter Mosley, Faye Kellerman, Alex Abella, and Chang-Rae Lee.
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