The Foreign In International Crime Fiction: Transcultural Representations

?he foreigner' is a familiar character in popular crime fiction, from the foreign detective whose outsider status provides a unique perspective on a familiar or exotic location to the xenophobic portrayal of the criminal ?ther'. Exploring popular crime fiction from across the world, The Foreign in International Crime Writing examines these popular works as ?ranscultural contact zones' in which writers can tackle such issues as national identity, immigration, globalization and diaspora communities. Offering readings of 20th and 21st-century crime writing from Norway, the UK, India, China, Europe and Australasia, the essays in this book open up new directions for scholarship on crime writing and transnational literatures.

• • Author: Jean Anderson, Carolina Miranda, Barbara Pezzotti
• • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• • Publication Date: Apr 24, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 256 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1472569547
• • ISBN-13: 9781472569547