Intersectionality and Decolonisation in Contemporary British Crime Fiction

By: Charlotte Beyer

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Intersectionality and decolonisation are prominent themes in contemporary British crime fiction. This book examines representations of race, class, sexuality, and gender, arguing that the genre is a site where urgent social questions are debated and representation is explored.

Intersectionality and decolonisation are prominent themes in contemporary British crime fiction. Through an in-depth critical and contextual analysis of selected contemporary British crime fiction novels from the 1990s to 2018, this distinctive book examines representations of race, class, sexuality, and gender by John Harvey, Stella Duffy, M.Y. Alam, and Dorothy Koomson. It argues that contemporary British crime fiction is a field of contestation where urgent cultural and social questions are debated and the politics of representation explored. A significant resource which will be valuable to researchers and scholars of the crime genre, as well as British literature, this book offers timely critical engagement with intersectionality and decolonisation and their representation in contemporary British crime fiction.

Dr Charlotte Beyer is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. She has published widely on crime fiction and contemporary literature. She is the author of the books Murder in a Few Words: Gender, Genre and Location in the Crime Short Story (2020) and Contemporary Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Writing Back to History and Oppression (2021), and the editor of six volumes, including Teaching Crime Fiction (2018) and Decolonising the Literature Curriculum (2022).

Hardback

ISBN: 1-5275-9158-1
ISBN13: 978-1-5275-9158-5
Date of Publication: 2023-01-26

Paperback

ISBN: 1-0364-0086-7
ISBN13: 978-1-0364-0086-6
Date of Publication: 2024-02-16

Ebook

ISBN: 1-5275-9159-X
ISBN13: 978-1-5275-9159-2
Date of Publication: 2024-02-16

Categories: Social Sciences, Literature, Literature, History

Pages: 230

Subject Codes:

BIC: DS, HBJD1, F
THEMA: DS, NHD, F

Pages: 230

"Charlotte Beyer makes an arresting claim in Intersectionality and decolonisation in contemporary British crime fiction (2023): that Britain’s crime fiction of the last forty years thoughtfully exposes its setting ‘as a crime scene perpetuating racism, sexism, and homophobia’ (p. 15). Beyer’s conception of Britain as crime scene, both literally (in her choice of genre) and more abstractly (in her analyses of real-life discrimination that is prosecuted or ignored by the law) persuasively demonstrates the development of the modern crime novel’s relationship with gender, sexuality, race, and class. She creates a text rich in material for scholars of genre fiction and cultural identity alike."
- Hyla Maddalena Independent Scholar, USA, writing in Journal of Gender Studies

Meet The Author

Charlotte Beyer

Contemporary Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Writing Back to History and Oppression