The Destruction of the Idyll: Linda Castillo’s and Jodi Picoult’s Amish Crime Fiction

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216275%3A25210%2F21%3A39917376" target="_blank" >RIV/00216275:25210/21:39917376 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciendo.com/article/10.2478/aa-2021-0001" target="_blank" >https://www.sciendo.com/article/10.2478/aa-2021-0001</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/aa-2021-0001" target="_blank" >10.2478/aa-2021-0001</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Destruction of the Idyll: Linda Castillo’s and Jodi Picoult’s Amish Crime Fiction

Original language description

The present article discusses recent developments in American crime fiction, namely the so-called Amish mysteries by Linda Castillo and Jodi Picoult. The aim is to show that although Castillo’s and Picoult’s fiction has been termed ethnic crime writing, the way these writers make use of the Amish setting does not serve the primarily educational purposes of raising awareness about a specific ethnic group as was the case with the older generation of ethnic crime writers (such as Tony Hillerman and P.L. Gaus). Employing Bakhtin’s idyllic chronotope (a concept most often critically applied to classic works but shown here as a versatile instrument for discussing genre literature as well) as a point of reference, the paper further analyzes how the narratives invoke this familiar spatial model and initiate its violation. It argues that the writers’ narrative strategies serve to achieve the sharpest contrast between the idyllic place of love, family and labor and the hideous crimes committed there, implying that the idyllic rurality is either too fragile to be attainable or that its existence is a mere deception.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60206 - Specific literatures

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA19-02634S" target="_blank" >GA19-02634S: Place and Community in Contemporary Anglophone Crime Fiction</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Ars Aeterna

ISSN

1337-9291

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

13

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

1-15

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85109731004