The Contemporary American Crime Novel: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Class

by Andrew Pepper and Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature Andrew Pepper

Book Overview

As America's ethnic and racial character undergoes explosive transformation, its crime fictions trace, contest and celebrate the changes. The Contemporary American Crime Novel is an exciting book that offers a comprehensive overview of recent developments in American crime fiction, exploring America's dynamic, fragmented multicultural landscape and how this changing landscape has, in the process, transformed the codes and conventions of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748613404
• ISBN13: 9780748613403
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 224 Pages