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Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction: A World of Crime (Crime Files)
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Description for Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction: A World of Crime (Crime Files)
Hardcover. Editor(s): Pepper, Andrew; Schmid, David. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 284 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Crime Files
Number of Pages
247
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137425720
SKU
V9781137425720
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Ref
99-15
About N/A
Andrew Pepper is Senior Lecturer in English at Queen’s University Belfast. He is the author of The Contemporary American Crime Novel (2000) and Unwilling Executioner: Crime Fiction and the State (2016). He has also written five crime novels set in nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland including The Last Days of Newgate. David Schmid is Associate Professor of English ... Read more
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