Crime fiction and ecology : from the local to the global / Nathan Ashman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ashman, Nathan, author.

Series:

Elements in Crime Narratives Series

Cambridge elements. Elements in crime narratives 2755-1873

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Detective and mystery stories--History and criticism.

Detective and mystery stories.

Ecology in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (75 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

This Element examines how contemporary ecological crime narratives are responding to the scales and complexities of the global climate crisis. It opens with the suggestion that there are certain formal limits to the genre's capacity to accommodate and interrogate these multifaceted dynamics within its typical stylistic and thematic bounds. Using a comparative methodological approach that draws connections and commonalities between literary crime texts from across a range of geographical locales - including works from Asia, Europe, Africa, South America, North America and Oceana - it therefore seeks to uncover examples of world crime fictions that are cultivating new forms of environmental awareness through textual strategies capable of conceiving of the planet as a whole. This necessitates a movement away from considering crime fictions in the context of their distinct and separate national literary traditions, instead emphasising the global and transnational connections between works.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jan 2025).

ISBN:

9781009358606

100935860X

9781009358644

1009358642

9781009358613

1009358618