Description
Book Synopsis 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 domin
Table of Contents
- Introduction: National Identity and International Crime Fiction in the Age of Populism and Globalization
- Getting Fooled Again by Populism: Detecting the Origins of American Hate in Spike Lee's Summer of Sam
- Australian Crime Fiction: Such Is Life for Hard-Boiled Larrikins
- Beyond Machismo/Beyond Modernity: Imagining a Postnational Society in Domingo Villar's Inspector Caldas Novels
- Black Money, Gray Skies: Financial Crimes in Modern Icelandic Thrillers
- Imagined Geographies and Colonial Marginals in Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
- "A new beginning for good people": National Identity and the New South Africa in Deon Meyer's Crime Fiction
- Sacred Games: The Interplay of Nationalism and Existentialism in a Multicultural Nation
- "Congress has never heard a voice like mine": Law, Legal Fictions and National Legal Culture in Native American Detective Writing
- Memory, Witnessing and Race at the End of the World:
- Rick Moody's "The Albertine Notes" as Metaphysical Detective Fiction
- From Istanbul to the East End in the Work of Barbara Nadel
- The Global Hybridity of Sherlock Holmes
- About the Contributors
- Index
