DTCF Dergisi 57.2 (2017): 1127-1150 DETECTION OR ENDLESS DEFERRAL/ABSENCE IN DETECTIVE FICTION: AGATHA CHRISTIE'S AND THEN THERE WERE NONE POLİSİYE ROMANDA YAKALAMA YA DA SONSUZ KAÇMA/KAYBOLMA: AGATHA CHRISTIE'NİN “AND THEN THERE WERE NONE” BAŞLIKLI ROMANI M. Ayça VURMAY Yrd. Doç. Dr., Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi, Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi, Batı Dilleri ve Edebiyatları Bölümü, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Anabilim Dalı,
[email protected] Abstract Detective ction, one of the most popular genres of the novel, is grounded on the concepts of crime and detection. The rise in detective ction is followed by the surge of theories on this genre, particularly informed by (post)modern readings. Agatha Christie, "the Queen of Makale Bilgisi Crime", not only contributed to the founding of the conventions of the genre, the "rules" of the "game", but she also deed and subverted the very codes of the genre during the Gönderildiği tarih: 16 Ağustos 2017 Golden Age of Detective Fiction. Therefore, Christie's novels can be read as the decoding or Kabul edildiği tarih: 22 Ekim 2017 deconstruction of the genre as well. Christie's And Then There Were None depicts the Yayınlanma tarihi: 27 Aralık 2017 double-faced nature of truth or detection, as it reects the endless doubling and deferral of presence/absence, criminal/victim, and lawgiver/lawbreaker. The nursery rhyme "Ten Article Info Little Indians" ("niggers"/"soldiers"), which is central to the novel, is a centripetal as well as Date submitted: 16 August 2017 a centrifugal force serving as the element through which meaning disseminates into others Date accepted: 22 October 2017 inside and outside.