Wetland Traces and Troubled Places in Selected Crime Novels by Attica Locke
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21408133 |
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| Authors | K Crane (0000-0003-4890-5936, University of Rostock, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 179-192 |
| Publication date | 2025-06-26 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0044-2305 • E-ISSN: 2196-4726 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/zaa-2025-2019 |
| OpenAlex | W4411091573 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
Attica Locke’s crime fiction novels, set in the eastern Texas region, bring the ambivalences of wetland regions together with the troubling histories of the US South. In this contribution, I center two of Locke’s works from the “Highway 59” series, Black Water Rising (2009) and Bluebird, Bluebird (2017), to explore the ways they draw on the epistemological indeterminacies of wetland regions. I situate these findings within the conventions of genre – of mysteries and murders that need solving – as well as within contexts saturated by racism and structures of neoliberal exploitation that go beyond simple resolution. At the edges of the spaces of Blue Humanities, and yet anything but marginal in contemporary considerations of environmental crises, wetlands prove to be a fascinating site for troubling all kinds of knowledges
Biology · Criminology · Sociology · Wetland · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Ecology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History
| Highly cited | No |
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