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Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction

A World of Crime

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  • © 2016

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Editors:
  1. Andrew Pepper

    1. School of English, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

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  2. David Schmid

    1. University at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA

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Part of the book series: Crime Files (CF)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction

    • Andrew Pepper, David Schmid
    Pages 1-19

  3. The Bad and the Evil: Justice in the Novels of Pago Ignacio Taibo II

    • David Schmid
    Pages 21-38

  4. Work and Death in the Global City: Natsuo Kirino’s Out as Neoliberal Noir

    • Christopher Breu
    Pages 39-57

  5. “Local Hells” and State Crimes: Place, Politics, and Deviance in David Peace’s Red Riding Quartet

    • Katy Shaw
    Pages 59-77

  6. The State We’re In: Global Politics and Economics in the Novels of Dominique Manotti

    • Véronique Desnain
    Pages 79-98

  7. The Scene of the Crime is the Crime: The Southern Border and the Representation of Violence in Cormac McCarthy and Don Winslow

    • Casey Shoop
    Pages 99-118

  8. True-Crime, Crime Fiction, and Journalism in Mexico

    • Persephone Braham
    Pages 119-139

  9. The Novel of Violence in Latin American Literature

    • José-Vicente Tavares-dos-Santos, Enio Passiani, Julio Souto Salom
    Pages 141-157

  10. Scandinavian Crime Fiction and the Facts: Social Criticism, Epistemology, and Globalization

    • Andrew Nestingen
    Pages 159-177

  11. John le Carré and The New Novel of Global (In)security

    • Andrew Pepper
    Pages 179-196

  12. Geopolitical Reality: The Thriller, Global Power, and the Logic of Revelation

    • Paul Cobley
    Pages 197-216

  13. US Narratives of Nuclear Terrorism

    • David Seed
    Pages 217-237

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 239-247
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Why has crime fiction become a global genre? How do writers use crime fiction to reflect upon the changing nature of crime and policing in our contemporary world? This book argues that the globalization of crime fiction should not be celebrated uncritically. Instead, it looks at the new forms and techniques writers are using to examine the crimes and policing practices that define a rapidly changing world. In doing so, this collection of essays examines how the relationship between global crime, capitalism, and policing produces new configurations of violence in crime fiction – and asks whether the genre can find ways of analyzing and even opposing such violence as part of its necessarily limited search for justice both within and beyond the state.  

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    “These searching and detailed essays reveal how some crime fiction writers are tracing modern crime to the negative impact of the state in the allegedly developed world, and also to the often overlapping forces of international neo-liberalism.” (Stephen Knight, University of Melbourne, Australia)  

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of English, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

    Andrew Pepper

  • University at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA

    David Schmid

About the editors

Andrew Pepper is Senior Lecturer in English at Queen’s University Belfast. He is the author of The Contemporary American Crime Novel (2000) and Unwilling Executioner: Crime Fiction and the State (2016). He has also written five crime novels set in nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland including The Last Days of Newgate.

David Schmid is Associate Professor of English at the University of Buffalo, USA. He is the author of Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture (2005), the co-author of Zombie Talk: Culture, History, Politics (2015), and the editor of Violence in American Popular Culture (2015).  

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