H.R.F. Keating: Post-Colonial Detection, A Critical Study (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780879726324)

In Keating's novels, set in India, the bumbling, but always human, Inspector Ghote manages to solve crimes with a post-colonial mix of inherited Scotland Yard/Holmesian deductive methods and his understanding of his native country's culture. This book is based on the premise that successful sleuths have much in common with cultural anthropologists-indeed the latter have often been termed detectives of cultures. Keating's Ghote novels are in the tradition of Tony Hillerman's Navajo Indian mysteries, and James McClure's South African novels, which serve up the human, experiential aspects of the cultural and ethnic conflicts that newspapers miss.

Author: Meera Tamaya
ISBN-10: 0879726326
ISBN-13: 9780879726324
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1993
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d