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Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction: A World of Crime

By Andrew Pepper , David Schmid (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
2016
ISBN
978-1-137-42572-0, 978-1-137-42573-7
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-42573-7
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2107207 bytes)
Series
Crime Files
Edition
1
Pages
IX, 247\250
Time added
2016-11-20 09:00:00
Contemporary Literature;Comparative Literature;Tra

Description

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 of analyzing and even opposing such violence as part of its necessarily limited search for justice both within and beyond the state.

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