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We could tell you what this book was about, but then we'd have to kill you.
Crime -- Fiction. --- Mystery -- Fiction. --- Suspense -- Fiction.
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Dutch literature. --- Sociology of literature. --- crime fiction.
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Sociology of literature --- Dutch literature --- crime fiction
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"Resisting Invisibility investigates the politics of visibility of women's bodies in Spanish crime fiction. By 'politics of female visibility', the author refers to the textual practices that determine the imperceptibility of women's bodies, including both exposure and erasure. What is at stake in the politics of visibility is the constitution of women as political subjects. The politics of visibility takes on a crucial role in crime fiction because it changes the nature of the story, from a plot that hinges on a female body denied full political participation through various strategies of objectification, to a narrative where the body functions as a critical tool of resistance to pinpoint the ineffectiveness of the legal system. The book provides insight into how authors engage readers with the politics of visibility of the female body through their manipulation of generic conventions involving the gaze and how, in turn, the female body gains or resists visibility."--
Detective and mystery stories, Spanish --- Spanish detective stories --- Spanish mystery stories --- Spanish fiction --- History and criticism. --- Spanish crime fiction. --- Spanish female crime literature. --- Spanish women writers. --- female crime fiction in Spain. --- lesbian crime fiction in Spain. --- politics of female visibility.
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Crime --- Literary prizes --- Detective and mystery stories. --- Crime - Fiction. --- Literary prizes - Fiction.
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Criminal Moves: Modes of Mobility in Crime Fiction offers a major intervention into contemporary theoretical debates about crime fiction. It seeks to overturn the following preconceptions: that the genre does not warrant critical analysis, that genre norms and conventions matter more than textual individuality, and that comparative perspectives are secondary to the study of the British-American canon. Criminal Moves' challenges the distinction between literary and popular fiction and proposes that crime fiction be seen as constantly violating its own boundaries. Centred on three axes of mobility, the essays ask how can we imagine a mobile reading practice that realizes the genre's full textual complexity, without being limited by the authoritative self-interpretations provided by crime narratives; how we can overcome restrictive notions of 'genre', 'formula' or 'popular'; and how we can establish transnational perspectives that challenge the centrality of the British-American tradition and recognize that the global history of crime fiction is characterized, not by the existence of parallel national traditions, but rather by processes of appropriation and transculturation. Criminal Moves presents a comprehensive reinterpretation of the history of the genre that also has profound ramifications for how we read individual crime fiction texts.
Detective and mystery stories --- History and criticism. --- world literature --- crime fiction --- genre --- mobility --- popular fiction
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Although George Bernard Shaw quipped that "the Germans lack talent for two things: revolution and crime novels," there is a long tradition of German crime fiction; it simply hasn't aligned itself with international trends. Duringthe 1920s, German-language writers dispensed with the detective and focused instead on criminals, a trend that did not take hold in other countries until after 1945, by which time Germany had gone on to produce antidetective novels that were similarly ahead of their time. German crime fiction has thus always been a curious case; rather than follow the established rules of the genre, it has always been interested in examining, breaking, and ultimately rewriting those rules. This book assembles leading international scholars to examine today's German crime fiction. It features innovative scholarly work that matches the innovativeness of the genre, taking up the Regionalkrimi;crime fiction's reimagining and transforming of traditional identities; historical crime fiction that examines Germany's and Austria's conflicted twentieth-century past; and how the newly vibrant Austrian crime fiction ties in with and differentiates itself from its German counterpart. Contributors: Angelika Baier, Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Kyle Frackman, Sascha Gerhards, Heike Henderson, Susanne C. Knittel, Anita McChesney, Traci S. O'Brien,Jon Sherman, Faye Stewart, Magdalena Waligórska. Lynn M. Kutch is Professor of German at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. Todd Herzog is Professor and Head of the Department of German Studies at the University of Cincinnati.
Detective and mystery television programs --- Detective and mystery stories, German --- German fiction --- Austrian fiction --- Television crime shows --- Literature and history --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History and literature --- History and poetry --- Poetry and history --- History --- Crime shows --- Crime television programs --- Criminal shows --- Criminal television programs --- Fiction television programs --- Thrillers (Television programs) --- Austrian literature --- German literature --- German detective stories --- German mystery stories --- Austrian authors --- Austrian crime fiction. --- Contemporary Crime Fiction. --- Crime Fiction. --- Crime Genre. --- Detective Fiction. --- German Authors. --- German Crime Novels. --- German Crime Writers. --- German Literature. --- German counterpart. --- German crime fiction. --- German-Language Crime Fiction. --- Literary Analysis. --- Literary Criticism. --- Literary Scholarship. --- Literary Tradition. --- Literary Trends. --- Regionalkrimi. --- historical crime fiction. --- traditional identities.
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A companion to contemporary German crime fiction for English-speaking audiences is overdue. Starting with the earlier Swiss "classics" Glauser and Dürrenmatt and including a number of important Austrian authors, such as Wolf Haas and Heinrich Steinfest, this volume will cover the essential writers, genres, and themes of crime fiction written in German. Where necessary and appropriate, crime fiction in media other than writing (TV-series, movies) will be included. Contemporary social and political developments, such as gender issues, life in a multicultural society, and the afterlife of German fascism today, play a crucial role in much of recent German crime fiction. A number of contributions to this volume will comment on the literary reflection of these issues in the texts. The goal of the volume is to make available to English-speaking audiences, to students, teachers and to a wider circle of interested readers, a series of articles on genres, topics, authors, and texts that will help them understand the scope and depth of German crime fiction, its ties to international traditions and also the specificity of the German context, its historical development and contemporary situation.
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Providing a survey of Anglophone African detective fiction, from the late 1940s to the present day, this study traces its history both as a literary form and a mode of critical exploration of the fraught sovereignties of the African state and its citizens.
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