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Criminal Moves - Modes of Mobility in Crime Fiction (Paperback)
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Criminal Moves - Modes of Mobility in Crime Fiction (Paperback)
Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies, 78
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Criminal Moves: Modes of Mobility in Crime Fiction offers a major
intervention into contemporary theoretical debates about crime
fiction. It seeks to overturn the following preconceptions: that
the genre does not warrant critical analysis, that genre norms and
conventions matter more than textual individuality, and that
comparative perspectives are secondary to the study of the
British-American canon. Criminal Moves challenges the distinction
between literary and popular fiction and proposes that crime
fiction be seen as constantly violating its own boundaries. Centred
on three axes of mobility, the essays ask how can we imagine a
mobile reading practice that realizes the genre's full textual
complexity, without being limited by the authoritative
self-interpretations provided by crime narratives; how we can
overcome restrictive notions of 'genre', 'formula' or 'popular';
and how we can establish transnational perspectives that challenge
the centrality of the British-American tradition and recognize that
the global history of crime fiction is characterized, not by the
existence of parallel national traditions, but rather by processes
of appropriation and transculturation. Criminal Moves presents a
comprehensive reinterpretation of the history of the genre that
also has profound ramifications for how we read individual crime
fiction texts.
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