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"Here Comes Sherlock Holmes of the Navajo Tribal Police!" Ethnic and Educational Aspects of Tony Hillerman's Crime Novels.

Autoři: Bubíková Šárka

Rok: 2014

Druh publikace: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Strana od-do: nestránkováno

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Jazyk	Název	Abstrakt	Klíčová slova
eng	"Here Comes Sherlock Holmes of the Navajo Tribal Police!" Ethnic and Educational Aspects of Tony Hillerman's Crime Novels.	The paper discusses Tony Hillerman´s crime fiction set on the Navajo Reservation land. 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 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.	Tony Hillerman; crime novels; Navajo detectives