Black lives, black crimes, and Black Consciousness in Gomolemo Mokae’s The Secret in my Bosom: A new vision of the police detective and democracy in South Africa
The Journal of Commonwealth Literature
Published online on February 25, 2026
Abstract
Literature, Critique, and Empire Today, Volume 61, Issue 1, Page 128-141, March 2026.
Crime fiction and the police procedural subgenre have come under media scrutiny in the Global North, particularly in the wake of the murder of George Floyd in 2020. Questions have been raised about the genre in relation to police brutality and whether the ...
Crime fiction and the police procedural subgenre have come under media scrutiny in the Global North, particularly in the wake of the murder of George Floyd in 2020. Questions have been raised about the genre in relation to police brutality and whether the ...