Crime fiction and national identities in the global age : critical essays / edited by Julie H. Kim.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kim, Julie H., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Detective and mystery stories--History and criticism.

Detective and mystery stories.

National characteristics in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 261 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2020]

Summary:

"To read a crime novel today largely simulates the exercise of reading newspapers or watching the news. The speed and frequency with which today's bestselling works of crime fiction are produced allow them to mirror and dissect nearly contemporaneous socio-political events and conflicts. This collection examines this phenomenon and offers original, critical, essays on how national identity appears in international crime fiction in the age of populism and globalization. These essays address topics such as the array of competing nationalisms in Europe; Indian secularism versus Hindu communalism; the populist rhetoric tinged with misogyny or homophobia in the United States; racial, religious or ethnic others who are sidelined in political appeals to dominant native voices; and the increasing economic chasm between a rich and poor. More broadly, these essays inquire into themes such as how national identity and various conceptions of masculinity are woven together, how dominant native cultures interact with migrant and colonized cultures to explore insider/outsider paradigms and identity politics, and how generic and cultural boundaries are repeatedly crossed in postcolonial detective fiction"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: National identity and international crime fiction in the age of populism and globalization / Julie H. Kim

Getting fooled again by populism : detecting the origins of American hate in Spike Lee's Summer of Sam / Tim Libretti

Australian crime fiction : such is life for hard-boiled larrikins / Janice Shaw

Beyond machismo/beyond modernity : imagining a postnational society in Domingo Villar's Inspector Caldas novels / Heath A. Diehl

Black money, gray skies : financial crimes in modern Icelandic thrillers / Jean Gregorek

Imagined geographies and colonial marginals in Miss Smilla's feeling for snow / Somdatta Bhattacharya

"A new beginning for good people" : national identity and the New South Africa in Deon Meyer's crime fiction / Colette Guldimann

Sacred games : the interplay of nationalism and existentialism in a multicultural nation / Somali Saren

"Congress has never heard a voice like mine" : law, legal fictions and national legal culture in Native American detective writing / Alexandra Hauke

Memory, witnessing and race at the end of the world : Rick Moody's "The Albertine notes" as metaphysical detective fiction / Andrew Hock Soon Ng

From Istanbul to the East End in the work of Barbara Nadel / Peter Clandfield

The global hybridity of Sherlock Holmes / Neil McCaw.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781476677156

1476677158

OCLC:

1130764926