This volume argues that we must examine the boundaries in fiction and non-fiction crime writing with an awareness of and turn toward the unseen structures and spatial uncertainties that so often lead to and reflect collective fears and anxieties. Drawing upon the insights and expertise of an international array of scholars, the chapters within explore the interplay of the literary, historical, social, and cultural in various modes of crime writing from the 1890s to as recent as 2017. They examine unseen structures and uncertain spaces, and simultaneously provide new insights into the works of iconic authors, such as Christie, and iconic fictional figures, like Holmes, as well as underexplored subjects, including Ukrainian detective fiction of the Soviet period and crime writing by a Bengali police detective at the turn of the twentieth century. The breadth of coverage—of both time and place—is an indicator of a text in which seasoned readers, advanced students, and academics will find new perspectives on crime writing employing theories of cultural memory and deep mapping.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction Meghan P. Nolan and Rebecca Martin; 1. Unseen Structures and the Outlaw: Depictions of Violations in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy; 2. Dark Waters: Eco-Noir in New York 2140; 3. Between Lenin and Sherlock Holmes: Soviet Militsiya Procedural in Volodymyr Kashin’s Detective Fiction; 4. Detecting Justice: Black Crime Fiction and the Novels of Attica Locke; 5. The Police and the Private Eye: The Making of Gendered and Racial Peripheralization in the Crime Fiction of Valerie Wilson Wesley; 6. Navigating the Carceral City: Calcutta in Late Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Detection; 7. Traversing the Borders of Poverty and Morality: The Intersection of Maps and Upper-Class Ethics in Anne Perry’s Neo-Victorian Series; 8. Facts and Fictions: The Liminal Space Between True Crime and Crime Fiction; 9. The Success(Ion) and Corruption of Crime Genres in Jo Nesbø’s Macbeth (2018); 10. The Golden Age Meets the Age of Aquarius: Agatha Christie in the 1960s; Notes on Editors and Contributors; Permissions; Index
Über den Autor
Meghan P. Nolan, MFA, MA, Ph D, is an Associate Professor of English and Chair of the Honors program at SUNY Rockland Community College. She is a multigenre writer, who focuses on (Neo-)Victorian and Modern literature/crime writing and fragmented perceptions of self-hood through many published academic works, fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Rebecca Martin, Ph D, is Professor Emerita of English at Pace University in New York. In addition to her Ph D, which focused on the eighteenth-century Gothic novel in England, she holds a graduate certificate in film studies from CUNY Graduate Center, and her interest in crime writing focuses on the hardboiled tradition.
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