Postcolonial crime fiction represents an important step towards the globalisation of the genre, and postcolonial criticism therefore pioneered a shift away from a sole focus on the UK, the US and France in crime fiction scholarship (Matzke & Mühleisen 2006; Pearson & Singer 2009).
Our case study extends this research while also going beyond it in two respects:
by broadening the discussion to include crime fiction from a range of different postcolonial contexts, and
by replacing an appropriative understanding of postcolonial crime fiction with a transcultural account that uncovers the amalgamation of literary traditions and knowledge systems that defines this form of crime fiction.
As a particular focus, this case study analyses the emergence of Australian Aboriginal crime fiction (Philip McLaren, Nicole Watson, Melissa Lucashenko, Julie Janson) and contextualises it via the first comparative analysis of Indigenous crime fiction globally.