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O.V. Vijayan (1930-2005) is regarded as one of the most gifted novelists to contribute to the literature of the South Indian state of Kerala. His The Legends of Khasak (1969) [...]

Zitkala-Sa's autobiographical stories, titled 'School Days of an Indian Girl' and 'An Indian Teacher among Indians,' appeared initially in The Atlantic Monthly (1900) and were subsequently compiled with her fictional [...]

DETECTIVE FICTION AND THE FOREIGN In their edited volume The Foreign in International Crime Fiction: Transcultural Representations (2014), Jean Anderson, Carolina Miranda, and Barbara Pezzotti define detective fiction as 'a [...]

As two figures that exist on the margins of society and culture, the antiheroine and the stranger are uncannily alike in their boundary-crossing and liminal occupation of physical and metaphorical [...]

Despite the publication of Hubert Poppel's 2001 study, La novela policiaca en Colombia [The Detective Novel in Colombia], local writers have not demonstrated the kind of sustained engagement with the [...]

Fiona Kidman is one of New Zealand's premier contemporary novelists with a writing career spanning about half a century. A prolific writer in multiple genres, including the novel, short story, [...]

Rambsy II, Howard. Bad Men: Creative Touchstones of Black Writers. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2020. 223 pages. Paperback. $29.50 In 'Born in a Mighty Bad Land': The Violent Man [...]

Federico, Annette R., ed. My Victorian Novel: Critical Essays in the Personal Voice. U Missouri P, 2020. 316 pages. Hardcover. $36. My Victorian Novel, edited by Annette Federico, gives us [...]

'All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.' Toni Morrison, 'The Site of Memory' On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina, a [...]

In their latest novel, The Death of Vivek Oji (2020), Nigerian author Akwaeke Emezi delves into the exploration of the violent death of one of its protagonists, Vivek Oji. Through [...]

Aramburu, Diana. Resisting Invisibility: Detectingthe Female Body in Spanish Crime Fiction. U of Toronto P, 2019. 296 pages. Hardcover. $30.82. In recent years, scholars from around the world and from [...]

Joyce, Laura, and Henry Sutton, editors. Domestic Noir: The New Face of 21st Century CrimeFiction. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 292 pages. Paperback. $95.50. Domestic Noir is an edited collection of essays [...]

Crime fiction is a 'strange' genre traditionally situated at the paradoxical coordinates of best-selling success and academic marginality. (1) Often considered a subliterary type and associated with low-class entertainment, thrillers, [...]

Since her first novel, Lightning Field, appeared in 2001, Dana Spiotta has published new novels in five-year increments, with Eat the Document in 2006, Stone Arabia in 2011, Innocents and [...]

Emma Sutton and Tsung-Han Tsai, eds. Twenty-First-Century Readings of E. M. Forster's Maurice. Liverpool UP, 2020. 296 pages. Hardcover. [pounds sterling]85.00/ $120.00 In the first book-length study of Forster's posthumously-published [...]

The fascination with nostalgia has marked British culture, and indeed the whole of European culture, from the 1970s onwards, asserts David Lowenthal (36). The currency of nostalgia notwithstanding, the phenomenon [...]

Fretwell, Erica. Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling. Duke UP, 2020. 336 pages. Paperback. $28. Erica Fretwell's Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling examines [...]

The article explores detective fiction as a literary genre focusing on the novel "Dragon Bones" by Lisa See. Topics include a definition of detective fiction according to "The Foreign International Crime Fiction: Transcultural Representations," how the genre was born, examples of postcolonial detective narratives that translate foreign locations to local readership such as Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" and the Chinese protagonist in See's "Dragon Bones."

The article deals with strangers and trespassers as essential characters of a crime fiction. Topics include the potential of crime fiction to promote social criticism, some classical titles with dominant feature of strangeness such as Patricia Highsmith's "Strangers on the Train" and Bill Pronzini's "Strangers," the association of the stranger with binary relationships, and the implications of the critical potential of strangeness and trespassing ingrained in women's crime fiction.

The article discusses the highlights of the online British Association for Victorian Studies Conference titled "Women and Humour in the Long Nineteenth Century" held from June 23 to 26, 2021. The keynote speech on feminist Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler was delivered by professor Margaret Stetz. Among the themes of the panel discussions and plenary lecture were women and the press, tradition and female slapstick. Also noted is a stand-up performance by Iszi Lawrence at the conference.

The article analyzes the depiction of meaning and narrative in the book "Levels of Life" by Julian Barnes. Topics discussed include the book's portrayal of the sin of height through the mistaken conviction about the permanence of an interpretation of the world, suggestion of Barnes about avoiding a predilection to commit the sin of height, and the belief of the author that love is secondary to the need of people to tell stories about their lives and stories about their loves.

The article discusses the human-animal relations in medieval hagiographic texts. It attributes the commonness of friendly interspecies relationships in hagiographic texts to the use of topoi and goodness of saints to animals. It describes ethical literary animal studies as capable of providing tools and methods for shaping society to meet or acknowledge the needs of non-human animals. Also noted is the role of ecolinguistic methods as a significant source of inspiration for literary studies.