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

Kód výsledku v 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>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60206 - Specific literatures

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA19-02634S" target="_blank" >GA19-02634S: Lokalita a komunita v současné anglofonní detektivní próze</a><br>

Návaznosti

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

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Ars Aeterna

ISSN

1337-9291

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

13

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

DE - Spolková republika Německo

Počet stran výsledku

15

Strana od-do

1-15

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85109731004