My Life In Crime

A  Walk through the Criminal’s City: John Kiriamiti’s My Life in Crime and My Life
in Prison is an examination of Kiriamiti’s use of the criminal figure to represent the
urban space and its discourses. Among the various ways through which this study
achieves its aim is by undertaking an overview of the crime genre in terms of its history
and development, particularly the most popular of which is the detective crime sub‐
genre. Secondly, the study examines Kiriamiti’s (re)construction of the fictional criminal
figure as a hero through the principles of the crime thriller. In the examination of
Kiriamiti’s representation of the urban space, this study digs into the various zones in
which the criminal undertakes his daily activities like the bar, certain neighbourhoods
and the prison. Finally, the study examines the use of stereotypes, as forming part of the
discourses that order the urban space, in Kiriamiti’s crime writing.