Crime Fiction as World Literature

King, Stewart

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“…The geographer Gary Hausladen, for example, maintains in Places for Dead Bodies that the proliferation of different crime scenes around the world is an act of resistance to the homogenizing tendencies of globalization, arguing that “in an increasingly integrated world, places are different and unique and that ‘sense of place’ is about these differences” (23). The focus on the specificity of place—what differentiates authors and texts from distinct national or cultural groups—is of course also a consequence of the disciplinary divisions that frame the professional lives and careers of the scholars producing research within linguistically or area‐defined departments of, among others, Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Latin American, Russian, and Scandinavian languages and literatures (King 9–10).…”

Section: Place and Environmental Crime Fictionmentioning

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“…Recent crime fiction scholarship, nevertheless, has begun to challenge the dominant focus on the local (i.e., the national) in crime fiction and has instead sought to explore the transnational connections that have always existed in the crime genre (Schmid; King; Pepper; Pepper and Schmid; Gulddal et al; Pezzotti). In a brilliantly argued study, David Schmid charts how crime narratives make any number of places meaningful, from locked rooms, manor houses, cities, and regions to the entire planet.…”

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CrimateFiction and the Environmental Imagination of Place

King¹

2021

The J of Popular Culture

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HE THEME OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION AND HUMAN-INDUCEDclimate change has become a staple of fiction and visual culture in the first decades of the twenty-first century. Indeed, the seeming ubiquity of environmental and climate fiction-or cli-fi for short-has led Mads Rosendahl Thomsen to identify it as one of four prominent themes in contemporary world literature (98,. 1 To date, critical attention to this phenomenon has centered primarily on "'literary' and middle-brow" fiction (Trexler 7) as well as science fiction (Milner and Burgmann). Nevertheless, there is also a substantial corpus of crime novels from around the world that investigate and interrogate issues of environmental damage and ecological (in)justice. These novels have been identified variously as environmental crime fiction, "nature-oriented mystery novels" (Murphy 143), "eco-thrillers" (McKie), "econoir" (K. Bishop 9), "ecologically conscious detective fiction" (Bandyopadhyay 70), and "ecological crime fiction" (Walton 115).These works of environmental, etc., crime fiction have not gone unnoticed by ecocritical scholars or by crime fiction scholars who employ ecocritical approaches to these novels. At its most basic, ecocriticism combines literary, film, and art analysis with environmental studies in order to better comprehend the ways in which the imaginative arts facilitate or, indeed, hinder interspecies connections (Buell et al. 418). Ecocritical approaches range from the study of representations of nature, understood as both wilderness and built environments (Buell, Future 22), to exploring expressions of environmental concerns (land degradation, pollution, species extinction, etc.) and,

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Section: Place and Environmental Crime Fictionmentioning

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Section: Place and Environmental Crime Fictionmentioning

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CrimateFiction and the Environmental Imagination of Place

King¹

2021

The J of Popular Culture

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“…Crime fiction in the twenty-first century has become a truly international and transcultural phenomenon and has even begun to be seen as a form of world literature (see e.g. Erdmann 2011; King 2014). This has been thanks in large part to the spread of English, French and American models and their enthusiastic adoption and modification within new target cultures (see e.g.…”

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Foreign settings in the Fascist-eragiallo: Italian writers’ creative explorations of criminality and cultural difference

Maher

2020

Mod. Italy

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The 1930s saw an explosion in the publication of crime writing in Italy, but initially readers’ appetite for crime fiction was fed almost entirely by translated imports from the US, Britain and France. Even as publishers began promoting crime writing by Italians, foreign models and settings remained important, and several early Italian writers set their work in foreign countries. This article, which draws on both textual analysis and archival research, examines some foreign-set novels produced by Italian authors during the Fascist years, and seeks to identify the function and appeal of foreign settings in the depiction of criminality in that period. These books, peopled by exotic ‘Others’, comment on corruption, freedom of the press, cultural diversity, racial difference, policing, criminality, as much at home as abroad. The distant settings offered safety and freedom, as well as escapism or distraction, and the opportunity to experiment with genre.

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“…El planteo de que los estudios sobre el género policial, hasta el día de hoy, se han enmarcado fundamentalmente en trabajos sobre literaturas nacionales o regionales es afirmado no solo por Nilsson, Damrosch y D'haen, sino también por Stewart King. Este crítico, de hecho, posee un significativo artículo, publicado en 2014 y titulado de igual manera que el libro de aquellos tres autores, en que expone algunas ideas para un abordaje de la literatura policial como literatura mundial (King 2014). Entre ellas, King plantea que una condición mundial del género policial debe medirse no solo a través de números de ventas y de traducciones a escala global, sino también por medio de referencias intertextuales (2014: 11) -afirmación sensata pero que, en todo caso, nos devuelve al linaje más tradicional de los estudios comparados.…”

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Literatura policial y literatura mundial

Maltz

2019

Rev. chil. lit.

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Elaboramos una aproximación entre el género policial y algunos debates recientes en torno a la problemática de la literatura mundial. Luego de mencionar la incorporación de lo global como tema de algunas ficciones, de explicitar el lugar de enunciación del analista y de repasar brevemente los aportes que piensan dicha intersección, planteamos dos abordajes: por un lado, nos apoyamos en los trabajos de Casanova y Moretti para pensar la literatura policial desde una perspectiva global y asimétrica; por otro, a partir de Luhmann, elaboramos otra aproximación teórica desde una perspectiva sistémica.

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Crime Fiction as World Literature

Cited by 18 publications

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CrimateFiction and the Environmental Imagination of Place

CrimateFiction and the Environmental Imagination of Place

Foreign settings in the Fascist-eragiallo: Italian writers’ creative explorations of criminality and cultural difference

Literatura policial y literatura mundial

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