| Description |
1 online resource (200 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Unseen Structures -- Uncertain Spaces -- Bibliography -- Unseen Structures -- Bibliography -- Chapter 1. Unseen Structures and the Outlaw: Depictions of Violations in Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy -- Introduction -- Nonviolent Crime and Place -- The Paperwork of Violence -- The Outlaw and Resistance -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2. Dark Waters: Eco-Noir in New York 2140 -- Introduction -- The Rhizomatic PI -- The New Nordic Noir -- Science Fiction and Noir -- New York 2140 and the Eco-Investigative Novel |
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Legally Sanctioned Crime and Criminals -- The Scene of the Seen Victim -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3. Between Lenin and Sherlock Holmes: Soviet Militsiya Procedural in Volodymyr Kashin's Detective Fiction -- Detective Fiction from Stalin to Brezhnev -- Volodymyr Kashin and the Tradition of Ukrainian Detective Fiction -- A Ukrainian Sherlock Holmes on the Ideological Platform of Leninism -- Ukrainian Detective Fiction: Escape from Socialist Realism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4. Detecting Justice: Black Crime Fiction and the Novels of Attica Locke -- Introduction |
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Crime and Justice in Nineteenth-Century Black Writing -- Crime Fiction and Black Writing, 1900-1932 -- Hardboiled Fiction and Black Writing -- Black Crime Writing and the Late Twentieth Century -- Attica Locke and Twenty-First-Century Black Crime Fiction -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5. The Police and the Private Eye: The Making of Gendered and Racial Peripheralization in the Crime Fiction of Valerie Wilson Wesley -- Introduction -- Situating Wesley's Tamara Hayle within American Detective Fiction -- A Black Female Cop in Belvington Heights |
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Tamara Hayle and the Sphere of Private Investigation -- Tamara Hayle: A Denigrated Other -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Uncertain Spaces -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6. Navigating the Carceral City: Calcutta in Late Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Detection -- Introduction -- The Texts -- Disciplining an Unruly City -- Discipline and Detection -- Disciplinary Space and Its Other(s): Theorizing Carceral Space -- Producing Carceral Space: Polyvalence -- Activating Carceral Networks -- The Detective: The Flâneur and Bricoleur of the Carceral City -- Notes -- Bibliography |
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Chapter 7. Traversing the Borders of Poverty and Morality: The Intersection of Maps and Upper-Class Ethics in Anne Perry's Neo-Victorian Series -- Introduction -- The Perils of Prostitution from Buckingham Palace to Bluegate Fields -- Freeing Females of the Gentry from Bloomsbury to Seven Dials -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8. Facts and Fictions: The Liminal Space Between True Crime and Crime Fiction -- Introduction -- A Shared Subject Matter -- The Updating of a Tested Formula -- Labeling and the Liminal Space -- The Violence (and the Victims) Around Us |
| Summary |
This volume argues that we must examine the boundaries in fiction and non-fiction crime writing with an awareness of and turn toward the unseen structures and spatial uncertainties that so often lead to and reflect collective fears and anxieties. The chapters within utilize theories of cultural memory and/or deep mapping to facilitate this process |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Crime Narratives, the Evil Other, and Borrowing from the Gothic |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 12, 2024) |
| Subject |
Crime in literature -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nolan, Meghan P., editor
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Martin, Rebecca, 1953 April 17- editor.
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| ISBN |
1839991186 |
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9781839991196 |
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1839991194 |
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9781839991189 |
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