The Cambridge Companion to World Crime Fiction

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-108-48459-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 630 g

Reihe: Cambridge Companions to Literature

Accessible yet comprehensive, this first systematic account of crime fiction across the globe offers a deep and thoroughly nuanced understanding of the genre's transnational history. Offering a lucid account of the major theoretical issues and comparative perspectives that constitute world crime fiction, this book introduces readers to the international crime fiction publishing industry, the translation and circulation of crime fiction, international crime fiction collections, the role of women in world crime fiction, and regional forms of crime fiction. It also illuminates the past and present of crime fiction in various supranational regions across the world, including East and South Asia, the Arab World, Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe and Scandinavia, as well as three spheres defined by a shared language, namely the Francophone, Lusophone, and Hispanic worlds. Thoroughly-researched and broad in scope, this book is as valuable for general readers as for undergraduate and postgraduate students of popular fiction and world literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gulddal, Jesper

King, Stewart

Rolls, Alistair

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. What is world crime fiction? Jesper Gulddal and Stewart King; 2. Crime fiction and the international publishing industry Karl Berglund; 3. The translation and circulation of crime fiction Susan Bassnett and Brigid Maher; 4. The international crime fiction collection Barbara Pezzotti; 5. Regional crime fiction Andrew Pepper; 6. Women in world crime fiction Nicole Kenley; 7. East Asian crime fiction Satoru Saito; 8. Crime fiction in South Asia Laura Brueck and Francesca Orsini; 9. Arab crime fiction Jonathan Smolin; 10. The crime fiction of sub-saharan Africa Désiré Nyela; 11. European crime fiction Jesper Gulddal and Stewart King; 12. Scandinavian crime fiction Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen; 13. Iberian and Latin American crime fiction Glen S. Close and Elena Losada Soler; 14. World crime fiction in French Jarrod Hayes and Alistair Rolls; Further Reading.

Über Autor(innen)

Rolls, Alistair
Alistair Rolls is Associate Professor of French Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is the author of French and American Noir (2009, co-authored with Deborah Walker), Paris and the Fetish: Primal Crime Scenes (2014) and Origins and Legacies of Marcel Duhamel's Série Noire (2018, co-authored with Clara Sitbon and Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan). His edited volumes on crime fiction include Criminal Moves: Modes of Mobility in Crime Fiction (2019, co-edited with Jesper Gulddal and Stewart King), which was shortlisted for the International Crime Fiction Association prize, and Translating National Allegories: The Case of Crime Fiction (2018), which was longlisted for the same prize.

Gulddal, Jesper
Jesper Gulddal is Associate Professor in Literary Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has published books and articles on anti-Americanism in European literature, mobility and movement control in the modern novel and crime fiction. Recent journal articles have appeared in New Literary History, Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature Studies, Symploke and Textual Practice. He has also co-edited Criminal Moves: Modes of Mobility in Crime Fiction (2019) and The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction (2020).

King, Stewart
Stewart King is Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Catalan Studies at Monash University, Australia, and an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities. He has written books and articles on cultural identities in contemporary Catalan- and Castilian-language narrative from Catalonia, crime fiction from Spain and world crime fiction. His most recent publications are the monograph Murder in the Multinational State (2019) and the co-edited collections Criminal Moves: Modes of Mobility in Crime Fiction (2019) and The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction (2020).