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