Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction : A World of Crime / edited by Andrew Pepper, David Schmid.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pepper, Andrew., Editor.

Schmid, David., Editor.

Series:

Crime Files, 2947-8359

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--20th century.

Literature, Modern.

Literature, Modern--21st century.

Comparative literature.

Transnational crime.

Contemporary Literature.

Comparative Literature.

Transnational Crime.

Local Subjects:

Contemporary Literature.

Comparative Literature.

Transnational Crime.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (IX, 247 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Summary:

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. .

Contents:

Introduction; Andrew Pepper and David Schmid

Chapter 1. The Bad and the Evil; David Schmid

Chapter 2. Work and Death in the Global City; Christopher Breu

Chapter 3. 'Local Hells' and State Crimes; Katy Shaw

Chapter 4. The State We're In; Véronique Desnain

Chapter 5. The Scene of the Crime is the Crime; Casey Shoop

Chapter 6. True-Crime, Crime Fiction, and Journalism in Mexico; Persephone Braham

Chaopter 7. The Novel of Violence in Latin American Literature; José-Vicente Tavares-dos-Santos, Enio Passiani, and Julio Souto Salom

Chapter 8. Scandinavian Crime Fiction and the Facts; Andrew Nestingen

Chapter 9. John le Carré and The New Novel of Global (In)security; Andrew Pepper

Chapter 10. Geopolitical Reality;Paul Cobley

Chapter 11. US Narratives of Nuclear Terrorism; David Seed. .

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

9781137425737

1137425733