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

以英语为母语的移民犯罪小说——由居住在全球北方的印度裔作家撰写——提供了双重视角：首先，它允许我们研究当代全球形式下民族国家、种族、阶级、性别和种姓的不平衡地形是如何在跨国间进行谈判的；其次，它推动了对流散小说与后殖民时代印度文化和社会不断变化的地形之间关系的重新评估。我研究了这部小说是如何挑战国家和国家地位的范式框架的，并回应了散居的归属和代表性的问题。

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.