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Amish Countryside in Linda Castillo’s Crime Fiction

Authors: Bubíková Šárka

Year: 2020

Type of publication: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Page from-to: nestránkováno

Titles:

Language	Name	Abstract	Keywords
eng	Amish Countryside in Linda Castillo’s Crime Fiction	Triggered by the successful 1985 crime thriller movie Witness, popular literature’s interest in the Amish community and lifestyle has been growing. Apart from the so-called bonnet romances typically featuring an Amish falling in love with a non-Amish (or vice versa), certain areas of Ohio with both Amish and non-Amish settlements have recently become the settings for various crime novels. Employing the Bakhtinian concept of the idyllic chronotope, the paper will focus on how Linda Castillo’s Kate Burkholder series of crime novels (also frequently referred to as Amish mysteries) represent the countryside and draw on the contrast between the idyllic place of love, family and labor and the hideous crimes committed there. It will also document a shift from the traditional urban setting of American hard-boiled fiction to a far greater variety.	Crime fiction; Amish mysteries; Linda Castillo; Kate Burkholder series; Mikhail Bakhtin; idyllic chronotope