Transnational Crime Fiction: Mobility, Borders and Detection

by Maarit Piipponen (Editor), Helen Mïntymïki (Editor), Marinella Rodi-Risberg (Editor)

Overview

Focusing on contemporary crime narratives from different parts of the world, this collection of essays explores the mobility of crimes, criminals and investigators across social, cultural and national borders. The essays argue that such border crossings reflect on recent sociocultural transformations and geopolitical anxieties to create an image of networked and interconnected societies where crime is not easily contained. The book further analyses crime texts’ wider sociocultural and affective significance by examining the global mobility of the genre itself across cultures, languages and media. Underlining the global reach and mobility of the crime genre, the collection analyses types and representations of mobility in literary and visual crime narratives, inviting comparisons between texts, crimes and mobilities in a geographically diverse context. The collection ultimately understands mobility as an object of study and a critical lens through which transformations in our globalised world can be examined.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030534127
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	10/27/2020
Series:	Crime Files
Edition description:	1st ed. 2020
Pages:	306
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Maarit Piipponen is University Lecturer in English literature at Tampere University, Finland. Her research focuses on constructions of gender and ethnicity as well as mobility and spatiality in crime fiction. She is the co-editor of Topographies of Popular Culture (2016).

Helen Mäntymäki is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Language and Communication Studies at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, where she teaches English literature and culture. Her main research interests include violence, gender and species in crime fiction.

Marinella Rodi-Risberg is Affiliated Researcher, Department of Language and Communication Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and has published on representations of trauma in journals and books including Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Studies in the Novel and Trauma and Literature (2018).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: From Mobile Crimes to Crimes of Mobility, Maarit Piipponen, Helen Mäntymäki and Marinella Rodi-Risberg.- Chapter 2: Transnational Crime in Deon Meyer’s Devil’s Peak and Santiago Gamboa’s Night Prayers, Sam Naidu.- Chapter 3: Temporal, (Trans)national and Human Mobility in María Inés Krimer’s Kosher Trilogy, Carolina Miranda.- Chapter 4: Abdelilah Hamdouchi’s Whitefly: Transnational Crime, Globalisation and the Arabic Police Procedural, Colette Guldimann.- Chapter 5: Systemic Violence in the Borderlands: Anthony J. Quinn’s Border Angels and Alicia Gaspar de Alba’s Desert Blood, Eoin D. McCarney.- Chapter 6: Transnational Female Sex Trafficking in Naia Marie Aidt’s “Women in Copenhagen,” Matt Johnson’s Deadly Game, and Stuart Neville’s Stolen Souls, Charlotte Beyer.- Chapter 7: The Socially Mobile Female in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Mysteries, Meghan P. Nolan.- Chapter 8: Liminal Spaces in Laurie R. King’s Touchstone and Keeping Watch, Mary Ann Gillies.- Chapter 9: Urban Mobility and Technology in Carlo Lucarelli’s Almost Blue, Barbara Pezzotti.- Chapter 10: Crime and Detection in a Virtually Mobile World: Tom Hillenbrand’s Drohnenland, Heike Henderson.- Chapter 11: Criminal/Liminal/Seminal: Nordic Border Crossings and Crossers in Contemporary Geopolitical Television, Robert A. Saunders.- Chapter 12: Across National, Cultural and Ethnic Borders: The Detectives in Olivier Truc’s Reindeer Police Series, Andrea Hynynen.- Chapter 13: Splatter Horror Crime: Crossing Medial Borders in Jo Nesbø’s The Snowman, Niklas Salmose.- Chapter 14: Affective Estrangement and Ecological Destruction in TV Crime Series Fortitude, Aino-Kaisa Koistinen and Helen Mäntymäki.- Chapter 15: Sophie Hannah’s Hurting Distance as CrimeTrauma Fiction, Marinella Rodi-Risberg.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“This rich, illuminating and ambitious volume brilliantly demonstrates an important truth about crime fiction—not just that mobility is written into its DNA formally, historically and geopolitically, but also that to think about the mobility of crime fiction is to interrogate the power dynamics at the heart of the genre’s global circulation and its preoccupation with the flow of people, money and goods across borders.” (Andrew Pepper, Senior Lecturer, Queen’s University Belfast, UK)

“This is an innovative and imaginative collection of fifteen distinct essays which takes the reader across geo-political, cultural and economic borders, and to victims, crimes, criminal networks and police in contemporary Scandinavia, Morocco and South Africa, as well as Victorian London. The essays are diverse and offer wide-ranging analysis and argument, while remaining focused on globalisation, transnationalism and mobility.” (Vivien Miller, Associate Professor, University of Nottingham,UK)