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Crime Fiction, South Africa: A Critical Introduction [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Writing, 2013
Crime fiction is an emergent category in South African literary studies. This introduction positions South African crime fiction and its scholarship in a global lineage of crime and detective fiction.
Sam Naidu
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Crime Fiction and the Knowing of Pain

Literature and Medicine, 2023
Abstract: Recent studies of pain have disputed the idea that pain eludes representation in language. Where these have largely focused on the experience of pain, my paper examines the epistemological function of pain in crime fiction, a genre that by definition foregrounds meaning: what and how we know.
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True Crime and Contemporary Crime Fiction

Crime Fiction Studies, 2022
The incorporation of thematic and formal references to true-crime texts in recent British and Irish crime novels shows fiction authors acknowledging that they share an audience with true-crime podcasts, documentaries and books. At the same time, these authors assert the particular contribution that fiction makes to the raising of awareness of both ...
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World Crime Fiction

2022
In the case of crime fiction, since the first critical discussions of the genre in the early twentieth century, scholars have strongly focused on the United Kingdom, the United States and, sometimes, France, while paying only scant attention to parallel or emerging traditions in the rest of the world.
Gulddal, Jesper, King, Stewart
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European Crime Fiction

2022
In this chapter we argue that a predominant concern in many contemporary European crime novels is the consolidation of a democratic culture that protects the rights of citizens and upholds the rule of law. Drawing on a wide range of literary texts from across the continent, we analyse this overall ambition via three of its major manifestations ...
Gulddal, Jesper, King, Stewart
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Transnational Crime Fiction

2020
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 ...
Mäntymäki Helen   +2 more
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