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Ethnicity in Tony Hillerman´s Crime Fiction

Authors: Bubíková Šárka

Year: 2014

Type of publication: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Page from-to: nestránkováno

Titles:

Language	Name	Abstract	Keywords
eng	Ethnicity in Tony Hillerman´s Crime Fiction	The paper discusses the work of the mystery writer Tony Hillerman. Placing him firstly into the tradition of the genre of detective story, it then focuses on Hillerman’s two literary detectives Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Sergeant Jim Chee, both of the Navajo Tribal Police, on the way Hillerman employs the Navajo concept of hozho as a metaphysical framework for his plots and makes the detectives’ intimate knowledge of the traditions, beliefs and rituals of the southwestern tribes as well as of the rough beauty of the landscape central to solving the crimes. It also points out ways Hillerman employs in order to disseminate knowledge about the Southwestern nations (tribes) among his readers.	Ethnicity; Tony Hillerman; Crime Fiction