Crime fiction as world literature

Contributor(s): Nilsson, Louise [editor] | Damrosch, David [editor] | Haen, Theo d' [editor]Material type: Text

TextSeries: Literatures as world literaturePublication details: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. Description: vi, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: 9789354359897Subject(s): Crime in literature | Detective and mystery stories -- History and criticismDDC classification: 82.09 Online resources: Table of content | Reviews 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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