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Title: | 'Marlon James's 'Dangerous' A Brief History of Seven Killings' |
Author: | Grau Perejoan, Maria |
Keywords: | Escriptors en llengua anglesa Jamaica English-language authors Jamaica |
Issue Date: | Dec-2016 |
Publisher: | Centre d'Estudis Australians, Universitat de Barcelona |
Abstract: | Jamaican writer Marlon James's third novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings, for which he won the prestigious Man Booker Prize in 2015, is a crime novel which looks beyond the surface to explore and unearth suppressed histories. The genre itself, crime fiction, has proven to be prosperous ground to undertake such explorations. In Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction, Lee Horsley asserts that simply "the act of looking at what has been hidden is in itself fraught with meaning" (2005: 203) and he further specifies that the detective or crime story is "an ideal form of exploration of suppressed realities. The investigative structure provides a ready-made instrument for unearthing the previously invisible crimes against people" (id.). In fact, James himself has described his novel as the act of the pulling off a stitch that might "disrupt the whole fabric" (James 2015). |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1344/co2016/.20.94-97 |
It is part of: | Coolabah, 2016, num. 20, p. 94-97 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/128769 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1344/co2016/.20.94-97 |
ISSN: | 1988-5946 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Llengües i Literatures Modernes i Estudis Anglesos) |
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