Overview
- Combines the study of crime narratives with mobilities research
- Highlights an increased geographical diversification of crime fiction
- Examines crimes across borders, global flows of capital, the expansion and curtailment of human mobility, transnational spaces of production and consumption, and the mobilization of affects and emotions
Part of the book series: Crime Files (CF)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Crime on the Move: Transnational Crime and Global Capitalism
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Historicising Mobility and Agency
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Genre Borderlands: Generic Mobility and Hybridisation
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About this book
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. The essays argue that such border crossings reflect on recent sociocultural transformations and geopolitical anxieties to create an image of networked and interconnected societies where crime is not easily contained. The book further analyses crime texts’ wider sociocultural and affective significance by examining the global mobility of the genre itself across cultures, languages and media. Underlining the global reach and mobility of the crime genre, the collection analyses types and representations of mobility in literary and visual crime narratives, inviting comparisons between texts, crimes and mobilities in a geographically diverse context. The collection ultimately understands mobility as an object of study and a critical lens through which transformations in our globalised world can be examined.
Reviews
“This is an innovative and imaginative collection of fifteen distinct essays which takes the reader across geo-political, cultural and economic borders, and to victims, crimes, criminal networks and police in contemporary Scandinavia, Morocco and South Africa, as well as Victorian London. The essays are diverse and offer wide-ranging analysis and argument, while remaining focused on globalisation, transnationalism and mobility.” (Vivien Miller, Associate Professor, University of Nottingham,UK)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transnational Crime Fiction
Book Subtitle: Mobility, Borders and Detection
Editors: Maarit Piipponen, Helen Mäntymäki, Marinella Rodi-Risberg
Series Title: Crime Files
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53413-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53412-7Published: 28 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53415-8Published: 28 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-53413-4Published: 27 October 2020
Series ISSN: 2947-8340
Series E-ISSN: 2947-8359
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 306
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Contemporary Literature, Fiction, Literary Theory, Transnational Crime, Popular Culture , Cultural Studies