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La notion de « postcolonial » est aujourd’hui une notion dominante, ancienne, largement critiquée pour son imprécision, largement utilisée, en débat — dans des perspectives qui restent des perspectives anticoloniales —, en concurrence avec les notions de « littératuremonde », de « world literature ». Les essais ici réunis font le point sur ces débats en proposant un état de la question, en considérant le doublet « Littérature locale, littérature-monde », les critiques mêmes de la notion, et en indiquant que le postcolonial est parfois une manière d’indiquer un au-delà de l’histoire — ce qui est paradoxal au regard de l’usage prévalent de la notion. Les littératures contemporaines de l’Inde, les œuvres d’Abdelwahab Meddeb, d’Alain Mabanckou, d’Abdourahman Waberi, de Derek Walcott et d’Édouard Glissant offrent les appuis textuels de cette révision de la notion de « postcolonial ».

Comparative literature --- Thematology --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Literature --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- Littérature --- Themes, motives --- Thèmes, motifs --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Impérialisme --- Imperialism in literature. --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature. --- Littérature comparée --- Dans la littérature --- Thèmes, motifs. --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- Littérature --- Thèmes, motifs --- Dans la littérature. --- Postcolonialism --- Themes, motives. --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature. --- Littérature comparée --- Dans la littérature. --- Thèmes, motifs. --- Postcolonialism in literature - Congresses --- Postcolonialism - Congresses

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Recent crime fiction increasingly transcends national boundaries, with investigators operating across countries and continents. Frequently, the detective is a migrant or comes from a transcultural background. To solve the crime, the investigator is called upon to decipher the meaning(s) hidden in clues and testimonies that require transcultural forms of understanding. For the reader, the investigation discloses new interpretive methods and processes of social investigation, often challenging facile interpretations of the postcolonial world order. Under the rubric 'postcolonial postmortems', this collection of essays seeks to explore the tropes, issues and themes that characterise this emergent form of crime fiction. But what does the 'postcolonial' bring to the genre apart from the well-known, and valid, discourses of resistance, subversion and ethnicity? And why 'postmortems'? A dissection and medical examination of a body to determine the cause of death, the 'postmortem' of the postcolonial not only alludes to the investigation of the victim's remains, but also to the body of the individual text and its contexts. This collection interrogates literary concepts of postcoloniality and crime from transcultural perspectives in the attempt to offer new critical impulses to the study of crime fiction and postcolonial literatures. International scholars offer insights into the 'postcolonial postmortems' of a wide range of texts by authors from Africa, South Asia, the Asian and African Diaspora, and Australia, including Robert G. Barrett, Unity Dow, Wessel Ebersohn, Romesh Gunesekera, Kazuo Ishiguro, Sujata Massey, Alexander McCall Smith and Michael Ondaatje.

Sociology of literature --- Comparative literature --- Thematology --- Littérature post-coloniale --- Littérature postcoloniale --- Littératures postcoloniales --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- Postcolonialité littéraire --- Postkolonialisme in de literatuur --- Poésie postcoloniale --- Roman postcolonial --- Théâtre postcolonial --- Crime in literature --- Cross-cultural studies --- Detective and mystery stories --- History and criticism --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Cross-cultural studies. --- History and criticism.