Crime Fiction And National Identities In The Global Age

Author : Julie H. Kim
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476677156

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Crime Fiction and National Identities in the Global Age by Julie H. Kim Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042029170

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Investigating Identities by Anonim Pdf

Investigating Identities: Questions of Identity in Contemporary International Crime Fiction is one of the relatively few books to date which adopts a comparative approach to the study of the genre. This collection of twenty essays by international scholars, examining crime fiction production from over a dozen countries, confirms that a comparative approach can both shed light on processes of adaptation and appropriation of the genre within specific national, regional or local contexts, and also uncover similarities between the works of authors from very different areas.Contributors explore discourse concerning national and historical memory, language, race, ethnicity, culture and gender, and examine how identity is affirmed and challenged in the crime genre today. They reveal a growing tendency towards hybridization and postmodern experimentation, and increasing engagement with philosophical enquiry into the epistemological dimensions of investigation. Throughout, the notion of stable identities is subject to scrutiny.While each essay in itself is a valuable addition to existing criticism on the genre, all the chapters mutually inform and complement each other in fascinating and often unexpected ways. This volume makes an important contribution to the growing field of crime fiction studies and to ongoing debates on questions of identity. It will therefore be of special interest to students and scholars of the crime genre, identity studies and comparative literature. It will also appeal to all who enjoy reading contemporary crime fiction.

Author : Nels Pearson,Marc Singer
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0754668487

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Detective Fiction in a Postcolonial and Transnational World by Nels Pearson,Marc Singer Pdf

Taking up a neglected area in the study of the crime novel, this collection investigates the growing number of writers who adapt conventions of detective fiction to expose problems of law, ethics, and identity that arise in postcolonial and transnational settings. Essays explore novels set in Latin America, the Caribbean, India, and North America, including novels that view the American metropolis through the eyes of minority detectives

Author : Jean Anderson,Carolina Miranda,Barbara Pezzotti
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441177032

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The Foreign in International Crime Fiction by Jean Anderson,Carolina Miranda,Barbara Pezzotti Pdf

'The foreigner' is a familiar character in popular crime fiction, from the foreign detective whose outsider status provides a unique perspective on a familiar or exotic location to the xenophobic portrayal of the criminal 'other'. Exploring popular crime fiction from across the world, The Foreign in International Crime Fiction examines these popular works as 'transcultural contact zones' in which writers can tackle such issues as national identity, immigration, globalization and diaspora communities. Offering readings of 20th and 21st-century crime writing from Norway, the UK, India, China, Europe and Australasia, the essays in this book open up new directions for scholarship on crime writing and transnational literatures.

Author : Andrew Pepper,David Schmid
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137425737

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Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction by Andrew Pepper,David Schmid Pdf

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.

Author : Richard Bradford,Madelena Gonzalez,Stephen Butler,James Ward,Kevin De Ornellas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119652649

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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature by Richard Bradford,Madelena Gonzalez,Stephen Butler,James Ward,Kevin De Ornellas Pdf

THE WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANION TO CONTEMPORARY BRITISH AND IRISH LITERATURE An insightful guide to the exploration of modern British and Irish literature The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature is a must-have guide for anyone hoping to navigate the world of new British and Irish writing. Including modern authors and poets from the 1960s through to the 21st century, the Companion provides a thorough overview of contemporary poetry, fiction, and drama by some of the most prominent and noteworthy writers. Seventy-three comprehensive chapters focus on individual authors as well as such topics as Englishness and identity, contemporary Science Fiction, Black writing in Britain, crime fiction, and the influence of globalization on British and Irish Literature. Written in four parts, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature includes comprehensive examinations of individual authors, as well as a variety of themes that have come to define the contemporary period: ethnicity, gender, nationality, and more. A thorough guide to the main figures and concepts in contemporary literature from Britain and Ireland, this two-volume set: Includes studies of notable figures such as Seamus Heaney and Angela Carter, as well as more recently influential writers such as Zadie Smith and Sarah Waters. Covers topics such as LGBT fiction, androgyny in contemporary British Literature, and post-Troubles Northern Irish Fiction Features a broad range of writers and topics covered by distinguished academics Includes an analysis of the interplay between individual authors and the major themes of the day, and whether an examination of the latter enables us to appreciate the former. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature provides essential reading for students as well as academics seeking to learn more about the history and future direction of contemporary British and Irish Literature.

Author : Urszula Elias,Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-Charlish
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3653032113

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Crime Scenes by Urszula Elias,Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-Charlish Pdf

This book examines the ways in which crime fiction has developed over several decades and in several national literary traditions. Issues discussed include genre syncretism, intertextuality, sexuality and gender, nationhood and globalization, postcolonial literature and ethical aspects of crime fiction.

Author : Charlotte Beyer
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 1527564061

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Contemporary Crime Fiction by Charlotte Beyer Pdf

This unique and timely book presents nine compelling essays on contemporary crime fiction, bringing innovative and fresh perspectives to the analysis of this most popular and vibrant literary genre. Investigating contemporary crime fiction and the critical debates surrounding its reception and production, the introductory chapter sets the scene for the chaptersâ (TM) analyses of distinct crime fiction topics, themes and authors. These topics include the experimental detective narrative, race and ethnicity, historical crime fiction, domestic noir, feminism and crime, environmental crime, and the poetics of place. Authors examined here range from Ian Rankin, Gillian Flynn, Val McDermid, Denise Mina, Robert Galbraith, Nancy Bilyeau, and Martha Grimes, to Tana French, Dale Furutani and J.G. Ballard, to name but a few. Informed by the latest critical debates and theoretical perspectives in the field, this volume presents an invaluable source of information and criticism on crime fiction for students, researchers and academics alike.

Author : Amos Goldberg,Haim Hazan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Collective memory
ISBN : 178238619X

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Marking Evil by Amos Goldberg,Haim Hazan Pdf

Talking about the Holocaust has provided an international language for ethics, victimization, political claims, and constructions of collective identity. As part of a worldwide vocabulary, that language helps set the tenor of the era of globalization. This volume addresses manifestations of Holocaust-engendered global discourse by critically examining their function and inherent dilemmas, and the ways in which Holocaust-related matters still instigate public debate and academic deliberation. It contends that the contradiction between the totalizing logic of globalization and the assumed uniqueness of the Holocaust generates continued intellectual and practical discontent.

Author : Frederick Buell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1994-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCSC:32106011009229

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National Culture and the New Global System by Frederick Buell Pdf

"The three worlds theory is perhaps still the basis for our dominant assumptions about geopolitical and geocultural order," writes Frederick Buell, "but its hold on our imagination and faith is passing fast. In its place, a startlingly different model—the notion that the world is somehow interconnected into a single system—has emerged, expressing the perception that global relationships constitute not three separate worlds but a single network." In the wake of disillusionment with anticolonial nationalism, and in response to a wide variety of economic, political, demographic, and technological changes, Buell argues, we have come increasingly to view the world as complexly interconnected. In National Culture and the New Global System he considers how the notion of national culture has been conceived—and reconceived—in the postwar period. For much of the period, the "three world" theory provided economic, political, and cultural models for mapping a world of nation-states. More recently, new notions of interconnectedness have been developed, ones that have had profound—and sometimes startling—effects on cultural production and theory. Surveying recent cultural history and theory, Buell shows how our understanding of cultural production relates closely to transformations in models of the world order.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004505339

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Iceland – Ireland by Anonim Pdf

This volume offers the first comparative account from contemporary and historical perspectives of Irish and Icelandic memory cultures and addresses the broader dynamics of trans-cultural memory that are surfaced in such comparative approaches of geographically peripheral islands.

Author : Qiu Xiaolong
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466830424

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A Case of Two Cities by Qiu Xiaolong Pdf

At once a compelling crime novel and an insightful, moving portrayal of contemporary China, A Case of Two Cities is the finest novel yet in this critically-acclaimed, award-wining series. Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is assigned a high-profile anti-corruption case, one in which the principal figure has long since fled to the United States and beyond the reach of the Chinese government. But Xing left behind his organization, and Chen, while assigned to root the co-conspirators, is not sure whether he's actually being set up to fail. In a twisting case that takes him from Shanghai all the way to the U.S., reuniting him with his colleague and counterpart from the U.S. Marshall's Service, Inspector Catherine Rhon, Chen finds himself at odds with hidden, powerful, and vicious enemies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : STANFORD:36105129755760

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British Humanities Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Languages, Modern
ISBN : PSU:000057122366

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MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures by Anonim Pdf

Author : P. Kennedy,C. Danks
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1349425729

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Globalization and National Identities by P. Kennedy,C. Danks Pdf

Drawing on original research from social scientists working on twelve countries this book explores the key issues faced by nations and citizens as they struggle to rediscover, reaffirm or reconstruct their sense of national identities in the face of globalizing forces. Some nations and peoples experience the fragmentation of once certain identities as threatening and likely to generate political and social breakdown. Others encounter globalization as a challenge which brings uncertainties but also opportunities for adaptation, the evolution of hybrid identities or new forms of protest.