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« La vision d’un monde marquée par les pratiques locales » au prisme du roman policier – entre « villes » et « campagnes »

open access: yesEbisu: Études Japonaises
Crime fiction and ethnography have a great deal in common. They originated at the same time, while the regional focus in both fields has shifted over time from the “city” to the “countryside”.
Daisuke Fukunishi
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Juvenile delinquency and violence in the fiction of three Kenyan writers

open access: yesTydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2018
This essay is a preliminary examination of crime and violence in postcolonial Kenyan fiction. It examines how three Kenyan writers have dealt with the themes of crime and violence in their fiction.
Tom Odhiambo
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Don’t Try This at Home: Interwar Parodies of Crime Fiction in the Eastern Mediterranean

open access: yesBelphégor
This article explores the insights that crime fiction offers on state formation and democratic governance in modern Greece and Egypt. Despite differing historical paths after centuries of Ottoman rule, both nations experienced periods of democratic ...
Gianluca Parolin
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The Role of Setting in the Golden Age Detective Novel

open access: yesAmerican and British Studies Annual, 2018
Analyses of crime fiction often focus on the plot, characters and their social positioning but tend to pay much less attention to the actual setting. Employing the concept of active and passive relationships of setting and plot, G. J.
Žaneta Stýblová
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