Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction

Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction
Author: Andrew Pepper,David Schmid
Publsiher: Springer
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2016-09-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781137425737

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Why has crime fiction become a global genre? How do writers use crime fiction to reflect upon the changing nature of crime and policing in our contemporary world? This book argues that the globalization of crime fiction should not be celebrated uncritically. Instead, it looks at the new forms and techniques writers are using to examine the crimes and policing practices that define a rapidly changing world. In doing so, this collection of essays examines how the relationship between global crime, capitalism, and policing produces new configurations of violence in crime fiction – and asks whether the genre can find ways of analyzing and even opposing such violence as part of its necessarily limited search for justice both within and beyond the state.

Transnational Crime Fiction

Transnational Crime Fiction
Author: Maarit Piipponen,Helen Mäntymäki,Marinella Rodi-Risberg
Publsiher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2020-10-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9783030534134

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Focusing on contemporary crime narratives from different parts of the world, this collection of essays explores the mobility of crimes, criminals and investigators across social, cultural and national borders. The essays argue that such border crossings reflect on recent sociocultural transformations and geopolitical anxieties to create an image of networked and interconnected societies where crime is not easily contained. The book further analyses crime texts’ wider sociocultural and affective significance by examining the global mobility of the genre itself across cultures, languages and media. Underlining the global reach and mobility of the crime genre, the collection analyses types and representations of mobility in literary and visual crime narratives, inviting comparisons between texts, crimes and mobilities in a geographically diverse context. The collection ultimately understands mobility as an object of study and a critical lens through which transformations in our globalised world can be examined.

Contemporary European Crime Fiction

Contemporary European Crime Fiction
Author: Monica Dall'Asta,Jacques Migozzi,Federico Pagello,Andrew Pepper
Publsiher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2023-05-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9783031219795

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This book represents the first extended consideration of contemporary crime fiction as a European phenomenon. Understanding crime fiction in its broadest sense, as a transmedia practice, and offering unique insights into this practice in specific European countries and as a genuinely transcontinental endeavour, this book argues that the distinctiveness of the form can be found in its related historical and political inquiries. It asks how the genre’s excavation of Europe’s history of violence and protest in the twentieth century is informed by contemporary political questions. It also considers how the genre’s progressive reimagining of new identities forged at the crossroads of ethnicity, gender, and sexuality is offset by its bleaker assessment of the corrosive effects of entrenched social inequalities, political corruption, and state violence. The result is a rich, vibrant collection that shows how crime fiction can help us better understand the complex relationship between Europe’s past, present, and future. Seven chapters are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology

The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology
Author: Nathan Ashman
Publsiher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 642
Release: 2023-10-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781000984514

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The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology is the first comprehensive examination of crime fiction and ecocriticism. Across 33 innovative chapters from leading international scholars, this Handbook considers an emergent field of contemporary crime narratives that are actively responding to a diverse assemblage of global environmental concerns, whilst also opening up ‘classic’ crime fictions and writers to new ecocritical perspectives. Rigorously engaged with cutting-edge critical trends, it places the familiar staples of crime fiction scholarship – from thematic to formal approaches – in conversation with a number of urgent ecological theories and ideas, covering subjects such as environmental security, environmental justice, slow violence, ecofeminism and animal studies. The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology is an essential introduction to this new and dynamic research field for both students and scholars alike.

The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction

The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction
Author: Janice Allan,Jesper Gulddal,Stewart King,Andrew Pepper
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 859
Release: 2020-04-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780429842429

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The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction is a comprehensive introduction to crime fiction and crime fiction scholarship today. Across 45 original chapters, specialists in the field offer innovative approaches to the classics of the genre as well as ground-breaking mappings of emerging themes and trends. The volume is divided into three parts. Part I, Approaches, rearticulates the key theoretical questions posed by the crime genre. Part II, Devices, examines the textual characteristics of crime fiction. Part III, Interfaces investigates the complex ways in which crime fiction engages with the defining issues of its context – from policing and forensic science through war, migration and narcotics to digital media and the environment. Rigorously argued and engagingly written, the volume is indispensable both to students and scholars of crime fiction.

Robert van Gulik and His Chinese Sherlock Holmes

Robert van Gulik and His Chinese Sherlock Holmes
Author: Sabrina Yuan Hao
Publsiher: BRILL
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2023-09-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9789004682511

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In the post-war mid-century Robert van Gulik produced a series of stories set in Imperial China and featuring a Chinese Judge: Judge Dee. This book examines the author’s unprecedented effort in hybridising two heterogenous crime writing traditions – traditional Chinese gong’an (court-case) fiction and its Anglo-American counterpart – bringing to light how his fiction draws elements from these two traditions for plots, narrative features, visual images, and gender representation. Relying on research on various sources and literary traditions, it provides illumination of the historical contexts, centring on the cultural interaction and connectedness that occurred during the multidirectional global flows of the Judge Dee texts in both western and Chinese markets. This study contributes to current scholarship on crime fiction by questioning its predominantly Eurocentric focus and the divisive post-colonial approach often adopted in accessing works concerning foreign peoples and cultures.

The Routledge Companion to World Literature

The Routledge Companion to World Literature
Author: Theo D'haen,David Damrosch,Djelal Kadir
Publsiher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 640
Release: 2022-09-30
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781000625967

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This fully updated new edition of The Routledge Companion to World Literature contains ten brand new chapters on topics such as premodern world literature, migration studies, world history, artificial intelligence, global Englishes, remediation, crime fiction, Lusophone literature, Middle Eastern literature, and oceanic studies. Separated into four key sections, the volume covers: the history of world literature through significant writers and theorists from Goethe to Said, Casanova and Moretti the disciplinary relationship of world literature to areas such as philology, translation, globalization, and diaspora studies theoretical issues in world literature, including gender, politics, and ethics; and a global perspective on the politics of world literature Comprehensive yet accessible, this book is ideal as an introduction to world literature or for those looking to extend their knowledge of this essential field.

Criminal Moves

Criminal Moves
Author: Jesper Gulddal,Alistair Rolls,Stewart King
Publsiher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2019-11-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781789624694

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Criminal Moves is a ground-breaking collection of essays that challenges the distinction between literary and popular fiction and proposes that crime fiction is a genre that constantly violates its own boundaries. Reorienting crime fiction studies towards the mobility of the genre, it has profound ramifications for how we read individual crime stories.