Crime fiction as world literature / edited by Louise Nilsson, David Damrosch, and Theo D'Haen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Damrosch, David, editor.

Haen, Theo d', editor.

Nilsson, Louise, 1973- editor.

Series:

Literatures as world literature.

Literatures as world literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime in literature.

Detective and mystery stories--History and criticism.

Detective and mystery stories.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 30 pages.) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

Summary:

"While crime fiction is one of the most widespread of all literary genres, this is the first book to treat it in its full global is the first book to treat crime fiction in its full global and plurilingual dimensions, taking the genre seriously as a participant in the international sphere of world literature. In a wide-ranging panorama of the genre, twenty critics discuss crime fiction from Bulgaria, China, Israel, Mexico, Scandinavia, Kenya, Catalonia, and Tibet, among other locales. By bringing crime fiction into the sphere of world literature, Crime Fiction as World Literature gives new insights not only into the genre itself but also into the transnational flow of literature in the globalized mediascape of contemporary popular culture."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction: Crime Fiction as World Literature

I. Global and Local. 1. The Knife in the Lemon: Nordic Noir and the Glocalization of Crime Fiction ; 2. After Such Knowledge: The Politics of Detection in the Narconovelas of Elmer Mendoza ; 3. Red Herrings and Read Alerts: Crime and Trans-Cultural Clues in Almost Blue and Nairobi Heat ; 4. The Detective Is Suspended: Nordic Noir and the Welfare State ; 5. Four Generations, One Crime

II. Market Mechanisms. 6. With a Global Market in Mind: Agents, Authors and the Dissemination of Contemporary Swedish Crime Fiction ; 7. So You Think You Can Write... Handbooks for Mystery Fiction ; 8. Covering Crime Fiction: Merging the Local into Cosmopolitan Mediascapes ; 9. Surrealist Noir: Aragon's Le Cahier Noir and Pamuk's The Black Book

III. Translating Crime. 10. Detective Fiction in Translation: Shifting Patterns of Reception ; 11. Making It Ours: Translation and the Circulation of Crime Fiction in Catalan ; 12. In Agatha's Footsteps: The Cursed Goblet and Contemporary Bulgarian Crime Fiction ; 13. A Missing Literature: Dror Mishani and the Case of Israeli Crime Fiction ; 14. World Detective Form and Thai Crime Fiction

IV. Holmes away from Home. 15. Holmes Away from Home: The Great Detective in the Transnational Literary Network ; 16. Sherlock's Queen Bee ; 17. Sherlock Holmes Came to China: Detective Fiction, Cultural Meditations, and Chinese Modernity ; 18. A Sinister Chuckle: Sherlock in Tibet ; 19. Detecting Conspiracy: Boris Akunin's Dandiacal Detective, or a Century in Queer Profiles from London to Moscow

Notes on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781501319341

1501319345

9781501319365

1501319361

9781501319358

1501319353

OCLC:

965720102