Jeanette Sloniowski and Marilyn Rose (eds), Detecting Canada : Essays on Canadian Crime Fiction, Televison, and Film

The title of Jeannette Sloniowski and Marilyn Rose’s Detecting Canada is a clever (and presumably intentional) pun : all of the essays in this collection about Canadian crime fiction are also, either implicitly or explicitly, about how we can detect who or what is Canadian. Is it enough, for instanc...

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Published inBelphégor no. 13-1
Main Author Maitzen, Rohan
Format Book Review Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published LPCM 12.07.2015
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Summary:The title of Jeannette Sloniowski and Marilyn Rose’s Detecting Canada is a clever (and presumably intentional) pun : all of the essays in this collection about Canadian crime fiction are also, either implicitly or explicitly, about how we can detect who or what is Canadian. Is it enough, for instance, for an author to have been born in Canada, or to be a Canadian citizen ? What if a writer resides in Canada but sets his books elsewhere ? Or, having moved away, returns to Canada only through h...
ISSN:1499-7185
1499-7185
DOI:10.4000/belphegor.560