The Crossroads of Crime Writing: Unseen Structures and Uncertain Spaces

The Crossroads of Crime Writing

Unseen Structures and Uncertain Spaces

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Edited by Meghan P. Nolan, Rockland Community College, New York, Rebecca Martin, Pace University, New York

Publisher:: Anthem Press
Online publication date:: April 2024
Print publication year:: 2024
Online ISBN:: 9781839991196

Subjects:: Literature, Literary Texts, Literary Theory

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This volume argues that we must examine the boundaries in fiction and non-fiction crime writing with an awareness of and turn toward the unseen structures and spatial uncertainties that so often lead to and reflect collective fears and anxieties. Drawing upon the insights and expertise of an international array of scholars, the chapters within explore the interplay of the literary, historical, social, and cultural in various modes of crime writing from the 1890s to as recent as 2017. They examine unseen structures and uncertain spaces, and simultaneously provide new insights into the works of iconic authors, such as Christie, and iconic fictional figures, like Holmes, as well as underexplored subjects, including Ukrainian detective fiction of the Soviet period and crime writing by a Bengali police detective at the turn of the twentieth century. The breadth of coverage - of both time and place - is an indicator of a text in which seasoned readers, advanced students, and academics will find new perspectives on crime writing employing theories of cultural memory and deep mapping.

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The Crossroads of Crime Writing

Unseen Structures and Uncertain Spaces

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-viii

Introduction
pp 1-18

Unseen Structures
pp 19-20

Chapter 1 - Unseen Structures and the Outlaw: Depictions of Violations in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy
pp 21-40

Chapter 2 - Dark Waters: Eco-Noir in New York 2140
pp 41-62

Chapter 3 - Between Lenin and Sherlock Holmes: Soviet Militsiya Procedural in Volodymyr Kashin’s Detective Fiction
pp 63-80

Chapter 4 - Detecting Justice: Black Crime Fiction and the Novels of Attica Locke
pp 81-102

Chapter 5 - The Police and the Private Eye: The Making of Gendered and Racial Peripheralization in the Crime Fiction of Valerie Wilson Wesley
pp 103-124

Uncertain Spaces
pp 125-126

Chapter 6 - Navigating the Carceral City: Calcutta in Late Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Detection
pp 127-152

Chapter 7 - Traversing the Borders of Poverty and Morality: The Intersection of Maps and Upper-Class Ethics in Anne Perry’s Neo-Victorian Series
pp 153-168

Chapter 8 - Facts and Fictions: The Liminal Space Between True Crime and Crime Fiction
pp 169-190

Chapter 9 - The Success(Ion) and Corruption of Crime Genres in Jo Nesbø’s Macbeth (2018)
pp 191-208

Chapter 10 - The Golden Age Meets the Age of Aquarius: Agatha Christie in the 1960s
pp 209-224

Notes on Editors and Contributors
pp 225-228

Permissions
pp 229-230

Index
pp 231-234

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