The Crime Scene as Museum: The (Re)construction in the Bresciano Series of a Historical Gibraltarian Past

Coolabah

关键词: Gibraltar;    Bresciano;    crime fiction;    museumification;    historicalmemory;    reconstructed narrative memory;   

DOI  :  10.1344/co2016/.20.83-93

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The “Bresciano” series of seven historical detective novels (2010-2015) by Sam Benady and Mary Chiappe set in a period of four decades early in the British imperial history of Gibraltar from the 1780s to the 1820s provides an excellent opportunity not only for reconstructing a significant image of the historical past of the colony – and possibly also of its current status – but also for investigating a complex of critical approaches to such writing in terms of historical crime fiction, post-coloniality, and the wider ramifications of the function of cultural-historical “museumification” and its impact on the literary narrative. The present brief study should be regarded as an introductory discussion rather than a definitive analysis.

【 授权许可】

Unknown