English Faculty Publications
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-2019
Publication Source
Clues: A Journal of Detection
Abstract
This essay places Dorothy L. Sayers’s novel Unnatural Death (1927 ) in the context of heightened xenophobia and racism in interwar Britain, arguing that Sayers attempts to challenge prevalent cultural associations of blackness and criminality. Like Wilkie Collins, Sayers works to critique and undermine racist assumptions and to generate sympathy for the colonial Other.
Inclusive pages
61-70
ISBN/ISSN
0742-4248
Document Version
Published Version
Copyright
Copyright © 2010, McFarland & Co. Inc.
Publisher
McFarland & Co.
Volume
37
Issue
2
Peer Reviewed
yes
eCommons Citation
Vorachek, Laura, "“His Appearance Is against Him”: Race and Criminality in Dorothy L. Sayers’s Unnatural Death" (2019). English Faculty Publications. 129.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/eng_fac_pub/129
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