Crime Fiction as World Literature

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Crime Fiction as World Literature is written by Louise Nilsson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1501319345 (ISBN 10) and 9781501319341 (ISBN 13).

While crime fiction is one of the most widespread of all literary genres, this is the first book to treat it in its full global is the first book to treat crime fiction in its full global and plurilingual dimensions, taking the genre seriously as a participant in the international sphere of world literature. In a wide-ranging panorama of the genre, twenty critics discuss crime fiction from Bulgaria, China, Israel, Mexico, Scandinavia, Kenya, Catalonia, and Tibet, among other locales. By bringing crime fiction into the sphere of world literature, Crime Fiction as World Literature gives new insights not only into the genre itself but also into the transnational flow of literature in the globalized mediascape of contemporary popular culture.