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Secrets and Silences: the Amish in Contemporary Crime Fiction

Autoři: Bubíková Šárka

Rok: 2019

Druh publikace: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Strana od-do: nestránkováno

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Jazyk	Název	Abstrakt	Klíčová slova
eng	Secrets and Silences: the Amish in Contemporary Crime Fiction	Triggered by the successful 1985 crime thriller movie Witness, popular literature’s interest in the Amish 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. Leaving the (mis)representation of the Amish community aside, the paper focuses on how crime novels (also frequently referred to as Amish mysteries) by Linda Castillo and Jodi Picoult employ secrets and silences both as motifs and as narrative strategies.	Crime fiction; Amish mysteries; Linda Castillo; Jodi Picoult; popular literature; secrets