Investigating Crime in a Time of War

Historical Crime Fiction and the Representation of Fascism

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Kniesche analyzes historical crime fiction depicting Weimar and Nazi Germany with specific questions in mind: what does the text try to accomplish in regard to transmitting historical knowledge?

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-04-13
Mått148 x 210 x 20 mm
Vikt476 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCrime Files
Antal sidor266
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031872310

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1. Introduction: Historical crime fiction and German Fascism: Different ways of representing Nazism and the Holocaust.- 2. Teaching readers about forgotten aspects of the Holocaust: Didacticism in Christian von Ditfurth’s A Paragon of Virtue.- 3. Deconstructing the People’s War: British and German Nazis in Foyle’s War.- 4. Teaming up the French policeman and the good (or at least not so bad) Nazi: Fighting crime in occupied France.- 5. Telling the story of the rise of German fascism: Intradiegetic narration in Volker Kutscher’s Gereon Rath-novels.- 6. The hard-boiled hero and the Holocaust: Reflecting on crime fiction as a representation of history in Philip Kerr’s Bernie Gunther-series.- 7. Negotiating the idea of historical truth: Questioning the reliability of account of the past in Uta-Maria Heim’s Feierabend.- 8. Conclusion: On different ways of telling the story of Nazism and the Holocaust in historical crime fiction.