- Title
- Arthur Upfield and Philip McLaren: pioneering partners in Australian ethnographic crime fiction
- Creator
- Ramsland, John; Ramsland, Marie
- Relation
- The Foreign in International Crime Fiction: Transcultural Representations p. 99-111
- Relation
- http://www.bloomsbury.com/au/the-foreign-in-international-crime-fiction-9781441128171/
- Publisher
- Continuum
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2012
- Description
- In the still developing genre of Australian ethnographic crime fiction that goes beyond mere thriller writing, two authors stand out on an international scale: Arthhur Upfield (1890-1964) and Philip McLaren (b. 1943). Such was the success and huge popularity of his books in the United States, especially in the 1940s and 1950s, featuring his Aboriginal detective Napoleon Bonaparte, that Upfield was the first foreign writer admitted as a member of the prestigious Mystery Writers Guild of America. He was a pioneer in two interrelated ways: first, he was the First Australian writer to place an Aboriginal character as hero rather than victim; and second, he is regarded as the first writer of 'ethnological crime fiction' (Ramsland and Ramsland, 2009, p. 113). After a thirty-year gap, Philip McLaren, an indigenous contemporary writer, came to the fore with a fresh voice, one that arose out of the Aboriginal cultural renaissance of recent years. With a number of well-received novels, he has mapped out the route for a militant postcolonial discourse based on insider perspective.
- Subject
- ethnographic crime fiction; crime fiction; Arthur Upfield; Philip McLaren
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1309351
- Identifier
- uon:21847
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781441128171
- Language
- eng
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