Transnational Crime Fiction

Mobility, Borders and Detection

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

AvMaarit Piipponen,Helen Mäntymäki,Marinella Rodi-Risberg,Helen Mantymaki

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Focusing on contemporary crime narratives from different parts of the world, this collection of essays explores the mobility of crimes, criminals and investigators across social, cultural and national borders.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-10-28
Mått148 x 210 x 20 mm
Vikt420 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCrime Files
Antal sidor306
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030534158

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Maarit Piipponen is University Lecturer in English literature at Tampere University, Finland. Her research focuses on constructions of gender and ethnicity as well as mobility and spatiality in crime fiction. She is the co-editor of Topographies of Popular Culture (2016).Helen Mäntymäki is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Language and Communication Studies at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, where she teaches English literature and culture. Her main research interests include violence, gender and species in crime fiction.Marinella Rodi-Risberg is Affiliated Researcher, Department of Language and Communication Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and has published on representations of trauma in journals and books including Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Studies in the Novel and Trauma and Literature (2018).

Chapter 1: From Mobile Crimes to Crimes of Mobility, Maarit Piipponen, Helen Mäntymäki and Marinella Rodi-Risberg.- Chapter 2: Transnational Crime in Deon Meyer’s Devil’s Peak and Santiago Gamboa’s Night Prayers, Sam Naidu.- Chapter 3: Temporal, (Trans)national and Human Mobility in María Inés Krimer’s Kosher Trilogy, Carolina Miranda.- Chapter 4: Abdelilah Hamdouchi’s Whitefly: Transnational Crime, Globalisation and the Arabic Police Procedural, Colette Guldimann.- Chapter 5: Systemic Violence in the Borderlands: Anthony J. Quinn’s Border Angels and Alicia Gaspar de Alba’s Desert Blood, Eoin D. McCarney.- Chapter 6: Transnational Female Sex Trafficking in Naia Marie Aidt’s “Women in Copenhagen,” Matt Johnson’s Deadly Game, and Stuart Neville’s Stolen Souls, Charlotte Beyer.- Chapter 7: The Socially Mobile Female in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Mysteries, Meghan P. Nolan.- Chapter 8: Liminal Spaces in Laurie R. King’s Touchstone and Keeping Watch, Mary Ann Gillies.- Chapter 9: Urban Mobility and Technology in Carlo Lucarelli’s Almost Blue, Barbara Pezzotti.- Chapter 10: Crime and Detection in a Virtually Mobile World: Tom Hillenbrand’s Drohnenland, Heike Henderson.- Chapter 11: Criminal/Liminal/Seminal: Nordic Border Crossings and Crossers in Contemporary Geopolitical Television, Robert A. Saunders.- Chapter 12: Across National, Cultural and Ethnic Borders: The Detectives in Olivier Truc’s Reindeer Police Series, Andrea Hynynen.- Chapter 13: Splatter Horror Crime: Crossing Medial Borders in Jo Nesbø’s The Snowman, Niklas Salmose.- Chapter 14: Affective Estrangement and Ecological Destruction in TV Crime Series Fortitude, Aino-Kaisa Koistinen and Helen Mäntymäki.- Chapter 15: Sophie Hannah’s Hurting Distance as CrimeTrauma Fiction, Marinella Rodi-Risberg.