World Crime Fiction

Title: World Crime Fiction
Creator: Gulddal, Jesper; King, Stewart
Relation: Routledge Companion to World Literature p. 285-293
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003230663-36
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2023
Description: In the case of crime fiction, since the first critical discussions of the genre in the early twentieth century, scholars have strongly focused on the United Kingdom, the United States and, sometimes, France, while paying only scant attention to parallel or emerging traditions in the rest of the world. This chapter offers a discussion of crime fiction as a literary genre that is uniquely global in terms of its production, circulation and reception. The tardiness with which crime fiction studies has embraced the wider world of crime writing is due to the special standing of British and American texts within the crime fiction universe. The development of crime fiction into a global genre is conventionally described as a matter of foreign writers taking over British-American forms and filling them with local contents, thereby producing works that might be of a high quality yet are in a fundamental sense derivative.
Description: 2nd
Subject: crime fiction; merging traditions; literary genre; crime fiction studies
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1478843
Identifier: uon:50237
Identifier: ISBN:9781032075389
Language: eng

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