Investigating identities : questions of identity in contemporary international crime fiction / / edited by Marieke Krajenbrink and Kate M. Quinn.

Investigating Identities: Questions of Identity in Contemporary International Crime Fiction is one of the relatively few books to date which adopts a comparative approach to the study of the genre. This collection of twenty essays by international scholars, examining crime fiction production from ov...

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Superior document:Textxet, studies in comparative literature, 56
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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 56.
Physical Description:1 online resource (361 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • INVESTIGATING IDENTITIES / Marieke Krajenbrink and Kate M. Quinn
  • NATIONALITY INTERNATIONAL: DETECTIVE FICTION IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY / Eva Erdmann
  • ARTICULATING AND DISARTICULATING CULTURE AND IDENTITY IN VÁZQUEZMONTALBÁN’S SERIE CARVALHO / Stewart King
  • POPULAR GENRE AND THE POLITICS OF THE PERIPHERY: CATALAN CRIME FICTION BY WOMEN / Anne M. White and Shelley Godsland
  • QUESTIONS OF IDENTITY: AN EXPLORATION OF SPANISH DETECTIVE FICTION / Anne L. Walsh
  • ABYSS OF THE SENSES: LES RIVIÈRES POURPRES BY JEAN-CHRISTOPHE GRANGÉ / Sjef Houppermans
  • FRACTURED IDENTITIES: JEAN-CLAUDE IZZO’S TOTAL KHÉOPS / Agnès Maillot
  • DETECTING ETHNICITY: JAKOB ARJOUNI AND THE CASE OF THE MISSING GERMAN DETECTIVE NOVEL / Arlene A. Teraoka
  • DOUBLE IDENTITY: HARD-BOILED DETECTIVE FICTION AND THE DIVIDED “I” / John Scaggs
  • PLUM’S THE GIRL! JANET EVANOVICH AND THE EMPOWERMENT OF MS COMMON AMERICA / Theo D’Haen
  • MURDER AND LOVE: RUSSIAN WOMEN DETECTIVE WRITERS / Willem G. Weststeijn
  • PERSPECTIVES ON THE DETECTIVE NOVEL IN AFRIKAANS / Hans Ester
  • WANTED: NATIONAL ALGERIAN IDENTITY / Beate Burtscher-Bechter
  • “TROUBLING” THRILLERS: POLITICS AND POPULAR FICTION IN NORTHERN IRELAND LITERATURE / Marisol Morales Ladrón
  • DOUBLE DUTCH: IMAGE AND IDENTITY IN DUTCH AND FLEMISH CRIME FICTION / Sabine Vanacker
  • CULTURAL IDENTITY IN SWISS GERMAN DETECTIVE FICTION / Christopher Jones
  • UNRESOLVED IDENTITIES IN ROTH AND RABINOVICI: REWORKING THE CRIME GENRE IN AUSTRIAN LITERATURE / Marieke Krajenbrink
  • CRIME NOVELS IN ITALY / Costantino C. M. Maeder
  • THE DETECTIVE AND THE DISAPPEARED: MEMORY, FORGETTING AND OTHER CONFUSIONS IN JUAN JOSÉ SAER’S LA PESQUISA / Philip Swanson
  • CASES OF IDENTITY CONCEALED AND REVEALED IN CHILEAN DETECTIVE FICTION / Kate M. Quinn
  • FROM A GOOD FIRM KNOT TO A MESS OF LOOSE ENDS: IDENTITY AND SOLUTION IN MARTIN AMIS’ NIGHT TRAIN / Brian Duffy
  • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX.