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Crime Fiction and National Identities in the Global Age - Critical Essays (Paperback)
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Crime Fiction and National Identities in the Global Age - Critical Essays (Paperback)
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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. More
broadly, these essays inquire into themes such as how national
identity and various conceptions of masculinity are woven together,
how dominant native cultures interact with migrant and colonized
cultures to explore insider/outsider paradigms and identity
politics, and how generic and cultural boundaries are repeatedly
crossed in postcolonial detective fiction.
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