Writing Crime in the New South Africa: Negotiating Threat in the Novels of Deon Meyer and Margie Orford.

The explosion of crime fiction in contemporary South Africa requires explanation in terms of its relations with actual crime in that country, with crime novels from elsewhere, and with trends in South African literary history. Taking issue with recent criticism which sees in the genre a turning away...

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Published in:Journal of Southern African Studies Vol. 38; no. 4; pp. 981 - 992
Main Author: Warnes, Christopher
Format: Literary Criticism
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Dec2012
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