The Cambridge Companion to World Crime Fiction
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The Cambridge Companion to World Crime Fiction

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The Cambridge Companion to World Crime Fiction

About this book

Accessible yet comprehensive, this first systematic account of crime fiction across the globe offers a deep and thoroughly nuanced understanding of the genre's transnational history. Offering a lucid account of the major theoretical issues and comparative perspectives that constitute world crime fiction, this book introduces readers to the international crime fiction publishing industry, the translation and circulation of crime fiction, international crime fiction collections, the role of women in world crime fiction, and regional forms of crime fiction. It also illuminates the past and present of crime fiction in various supranational regions across the world, including East and South Asia, the Arab World, Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe and Scandinavia, as well as three spheres defined by a shared language, namely the Francophone, Lusophone, and Hispanic worlds. Thoroughly-researched and broad in scope, this book is as valuable for general readers as for undergraduate and postgraduate students of popular fiction and world literature.

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Yes, you can access The Cambridge Companion to World Crime Fiction by Jesper Gulddal,Stewart King,Alistair Rolls in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Literary Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. Notes on Contributors
  7. Preface
  8. Chronology
  9. Chapter 1 What Is World Crime Fiction?
  10. Chapter 2 Crime Fiction and the International Publishing Industry
  11. Chapter 3 The Translation and Circulation of Crime Fiction
  12. Chapter 4 The International Crime Fiction Collection
  13. Chapter 5 Regional Crime Fiction
  14. Chapter 6 Women in World Crime Fiction
  15. Chapter 7 East Asian Crime Fiction
  16. Chapter 8 Crime Fiction in South Asia
  17. Chapter 9 Arab Crime Fiction
  18. Chapter 10 The Crime Fiction of Sub-Saharan Africa
  19. Chapter 11 European Crime Fiction
  20. Chapter 12 Scandinavian Crime Fiction
  21. Chapter 13 Iberian and Latin American Crime Fiction
  22. Chapter 14 World Crime Fiction in French
  23. Further Reading
  24. Index