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    612-822-4611

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Crime Fiction and National Identities in the Global Age: Critical Essays

Crime Fiction and National Identities in the Global Age: Critical Essays

Kim, Julie H.

Paperback

Literary CriticismGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1476677158
ISBN13: 9781476677156
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: May 25 2020
Pages: 269
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.70
Language: English

To read a crime novel today largely simulates the exercise of reading newspapers or watching the news. The speed and frequency with which today's bestselling works of crime fiction are produced allow them to mirror and dissect nearly contemporaneous socio-political events and conflicts. This collection examines this phenomenon and offers original, critical, essays on how national identity appears in international crime fiction in the age of populism and globalization. These essays address topics such as the array of competing nationalisms in Europe; Indian secularism versus Hindu communalism; the populist rhetoric tinged with misogyny or homophobia in the United States; racial, religious or ethnic others who are sidelined in political appeals to dominant native voices; and the increasing economic chasm between a rich and poor.

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