The Scene of the Crime: Nationhood and the Postcolonial Contemporary in South Asian Diasporic Crime Fiction

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Anglophone diasporic crime fiction - written by authors of Indian descent who are basedin the Global North - offers a double lens: firstly, it allows us to investigate how theuneven terrain of the nation-state, race, class, gender and caste in this contemporaryglobal form is negotiated transnationally; and secondly, it pushes for a reassessment ofthe relationship of diasporic fiction with the shifting terrain of postcolonial Indian cultureand society. I examine how this fiction challenges the paradigmatic frame of the nationand nationhood, and responds to questions of diasporic belonging and representation.