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Crime Fiction and National Identities in the Global Age

- Critical Essays
Engelsk Paperback

Crime Fiction and National Identities in the Global Age

- Critical Essays
Engelsk Paperback
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To read a crime novel today largely simulates the exercise of reading newspapers or watching the news. The speed and frequency with which today''s bestselling works of crime fiction are produced allow them to mirror and dissect nearly contemporaneous socio-political events and conflicts. This collection examines this phenomenon and offers original, critical, essays on how national identity appears in international crime fiction in the age of populism and globalization. These essays address topics such as the array of competing nationalisms in Europe; Indian secularism versus Hindu communalism; the populist rhetoric tinged with misogyny or homophobia in the United States; racial, religious or ethnic others who are sidelined in political appeals to dominant native voices; and the increasing economic chasm between a rich and poor.

More broadly, these essays inquire into themes such as how national identity and various conceptions of masculinity are woven together, how dominant native cultures interact with migrant and colonized cultures to explore insider/outsider paradigms and identity politics, and how generic and cultural boundaries are repeatedly crossed in postcolonial detective fiction.

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To read a crime novel today largely simulates the exercise of reading newspapers or watching the news. The speed and frequency with which today''s bestselling works of crime fiction are produced allow them to mirror and dissect nearly contemporaneous socio-political events and conflicts. This collection examines this phenomenon and offers original, critical, essays on how national identity appears in international crime fiction in the age of populism and globalization. These essays address topics such as the array of competing nationalisms in Europe; Indian secularism versus Hindu communalism; the populist rhetoric tinged with misogyny or homophobia in the United States; racial, religious or ethnic others who are sidelined in political appeals to dominant native voices; and the increasing economic chasm between a rich and poor.

More broadly, these essays inquire into themes such as how national identity and various conceptions of masculinity are woven together, how dominant native cultures interact with migrant and colonized cultures to explore insider/outsider paradigms and identity politics, and how generic and cultural boundaries are repeatedly crossed in postcolonial detective fiction.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 269
ISBN-13: 9781476677156
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1476677158
Udg. Dato: 25 maj 2020
Længde: 14mm
Bredde: 152mm
Højde: 229mm
Forlag: McFarland & Co Inc
Oplagsdato: 25 maj 2020
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ISBN-13 9781476677156


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 269


Udgave


Længde 14mm


Bredde 152mm


Højde 229mm


Udg. Dato 25 maj 2020


Oplagsdato 25 maj 2020


Forlag McFarland & Co Inc

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