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    Crime Fiction as World Literature by Nilsson, Louise; Damrosch, David; D'haen, Theo;

    Series: Literatures as World Literature;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
    • Date of Publication 23 February 2017
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9781501319334
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages312 pages
    • Size 228x152 mm
    • Weight 417 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 7 b/w illustrations
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    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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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction: Crime Fiction as World Literature
    Louise Nilsson (Stockholm University, Sweden), David Damrosch (Harvard University, USA), and Theo D'haen (K.U. Leuven, Belgium)

    I. Global and Local

    1. The Knife in the Lemon: Nordic Noir and the Glocalization of Crime Fiction
    Andreas Hedberg (Uppsala University, Sweden)

    2. After Such Knowledge: The Politics of Detection in the Narconovelas of Elmer Mendoza
    Michael Wood (Princeton University, USA)

    3. Red Herrings and Read Alerts: Crime and Trans-Cultural Clues in Almost Blue and Nairobi Heat
    Tilottama Tharoor (New York University, USA)

    4. The Detective Is Suspended: Nordic Noir and the Welfare State
    Bruce Robbins (Columbia University, USA)

    5. Four Generations, One Crime
    Michaela Bronstein (Stanford University, USA)

    II. Market Mechanisms

    6. With a Global Market in Mind: Agents, Authors and the Dissemination of Contemporary Swedish Crime Fiction
    Karl Berglund (Uppsala University, Sweden)

    7. So You Think You Can Write. Handbooks for Mystery Fiction
    Anneleen Masschelein (K.U. Leuven, Belgium) and Dirk de Geest (K.U. Leuven, Belgium)

    8. Covering Crime Fiction: Merging the Local into Cosmopolitan Mediascapes
    Louise Nilsson (Stockholm University, Sweden)

    9. Surrealist Noir: Aragon's Le Cahier Noir and Pamuk's The Black Book
    Delia Ungureanu (Harvard University, USA, and University of Bucharest, Romania)

    III. Translating Crime

    10. Detective Fiction in Translation: Shifting Patterns of Reception
    Susan Bassnett (University of Warwick, UK, and University of Glasgow, UK)

    11. Making It Ours: Translation and the Circulation of Crime Fiction in Catalan
    Stewart King (Monash University, Australia)

    12. In Agatha's Footsteps: The Cursed Goblet and Contemporary Bulgarian Crime Fiction
    Mihaela Harper (Bilkent University, Turkey)

    13. A Missing Literature: Dror Mishani and the Case of Israeli Crime Fiction
    Maayan Eitan (University of Michigan, USA)

    14. World Detective Form and Thai Crime Fiction
    Suradech Chotiudompant (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)

    IV. Holmes away from Home

    15. Holmes Away from Home: The Great Detective in the Transnational Literary Network
    Michael B. Harris-Peyton (University of Delaware, USA)

    16. Sherlock's Queen Bee
    Theo D'haen (K.U. Leuven, Belgium)

    17. Sherlock Holmes Came to China: Detective Fiction, Cultural Meditations, and Chinese Modernity
    Wei Yan (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)

    18. A Sinister Chuckle: Sherlock in Tibet
    David Damrosch (Harvard University, USA)

    19. Detecting Conspiracy: Boris Akunin's Dandiacal Detective, or a Century in Queer Profiles from London to Moscow
    Elizabeth Richmond-Garza (University of Texas at Austin, USA)

    Notes on Contributors
    Index

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