Details

Subject(s)

• Globalization in literature [Browse]
• Crime in literature [Browse]

Editor

• Pepper, Andrew, 1969- [Browse]
• Schmid, David (David Frank) [Browse]

Series

• Crime files series [More in this series]
• Crime files

Summary note

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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• The bad and the evil : justice in the novels of Pago Ignacio Taibo II / David Schmid
• Work and death in the global city : Natsuo Kirino's Out as neoliberal noir / Christopher Breu
• "Local hells" and state crimes : place, politics, and deviance in David Peace's Red Riding Quartet / Katy Shaw
• The state we're in : global politics and economics in the novels of Dominique Manotti / Véronique Desnain
• The scene of the crime is the crime : the southern border and the representation of violence in Cormac McCarthy and Don Winslow / Casey Shoop
• True-crime, crime fiction, and journalism in Mexico / Persephone Braham
• The novel of violence in Latin American literature / José-Vicente Tavares-dos-Santos, Enio Passiani, and Julio Souto Salom
• Scandinavian crime fiction and the facts : social criticism, epistemology, and globalization / Andrew Nestingen
• John le Carré and the new novel of global (in)security / Andrew Pepper
• Geopolitical reality : the thriller, global power, and the logic of revelation / Paul Cobley
• US narratives of nuclear terrorism / David Seed.

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ISBN

• 1137425725
• 9781137425720 ((hardbound ; : acid-free paper))

LCCN

2016948587

OCLC

934193525

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