{"product_id":"crime-fiction-and-national-identities-in-the-global-age-9781476677156","title":"Crime Fiction and National Identities in the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e   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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   More broadly, these essays inquire into themes such as how national identity and various conceptions of masculinity are woven together, how domin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: National Identity and International Crime Fiction in the Age of Populism and Globalization\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGetting Fooled Again by Populism: Detecting the Origins of American Hate in Spike Lee's Summer of Sam\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAustralian Crime Fiction: Such Is Life for ­Hard-Boiled Larrikins\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBeyond Machismo\/Beyond Modernity: Imagining a Postnational Society in Domingo Villar's Inspector Caldas Novels \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlack Money, Gray Skies: Financial Crimes in Modern Icelandic Thrillers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eImagined Geographies and Colonial Marginals in Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"A new beginning for good people\": National Identity and the New South Africa in Deon Meyer's Crime Fiction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSacred Games: The Interplay of Nationalism and Existentialism in a Multicultural Nation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Congress has never heard a voice like mine\": Law, Legal Fictions and National Legal Culture in Native American Detective Writing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMemory, Witnessing and Race at the End of the World: \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRick Moody's \"The Albertine Notes\" as Metaphysical Detective Fiction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Istanbul to the East End in the Work of Barbara Nadel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Global Hybridity of Sherlock Holmes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040455754071,"sku":"9781476677156","price":35.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781476677156.jpg?v=1750946812","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/crime-fiction-and-national-identities-in-the-global-age-9781476677156","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}