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Detective Fiction: Mysteries
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A beginner to detective fiction would generally be advised against reading anything about a piece of detective fiction (such as a blurb or an introduction) before reading the text itself. Even if they do not mean to, advertisers, reviewers, scholars and aficionados usually have a habit of giving away details or parts of the plot, and sometimes -- for example in the case of Mickey Spillane's novel I, the Jury -- even the solution. (After the credits of Billy Wilder's film Witness for the Prosecution, the cinemagoers are asked not to talk to anyone about the plot so that future viewers will ... be able to fully enjoy the unravelling of the mystery.)
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This collection of original essays is the first to evaluate multicultural detective fiction from a scholarly perspective. The contributors tackle such issues as postcolonialism, feminist theory, gay/lesbian perspectives, and ethnic and cultural confrontations as they show the range of frequencies on which multicultural mystery writing sounds, beyond simply escape and entertainment. This anthology began as a special session at the 1995 Modern Language Association conference.
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It is not only the detective fiction that can accomplish the above objective. Any literary genre can teach critical thinking skills but it is detective novel that leads to wide-scope thinking. In such novels, one is encouraged to attempt to solve mysteries.
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This curriculum unit will present the literary genre of detective fiction to entice, motivate, and instruct sixth grade students. It will present a “whole-learning” approach, focusing on improving the critical thinking skills of students through the use of the mystery novel.
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