Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction

A World of Crime

Andrew Pepper, David Schmid, Andrew Pepper, David Schmid, Andrew Pepper, David Schmid

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781137425737
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Modern Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Why has crime fiction become a global genre?How do writers use crime fiction to reflect upon the changing nature of crime and policing in our contemporary world? This book argues that the globalization of crime fiction should not be celebrated uncritically. Instead, it looks at the new forms and techniques writers are using to examine the crimes and policing practices that define a rapidly changing world. In doing so, this collection of essays examines how the relationship between global crime, capitalism, and policing produces new configurations of violence in crime fiction – and asks whether the genre can find ways of analyzing and even opposing such violence as part of its necessarily limited search for justice both within and beyond the state.

Index

A

Abominable Man, The

Abu-Jamal, Mumia

Acapulco

Accident Man, The

Adams, Rachel

Affairs of State

Affect

Afghanistan

Africa

Against All Enemies

Agamben, Giorgio

Allison, Graham

Al Qaeda

Althusser, Louis

American Odyssey

Americas

Anderson, Jean

Anglo-American bias

Anonymous Sources

Antigua

Antiheroes:Mexico and its Detective Novel

Anzaldúa, Gloria

Asia

Atta, Mohammed

Austin, JL

Austin Powers The Spy Who Shagged Me

Australasia

Australia

B

Bahrain

Baltimore

Basra

Baudrillard, Jean

Beck, Martin

Before Leaving

Beirut

Belarus

Belloto, Tony

Berlant, Lauren

Bigo, Didier

Big Sleep, The

Bin Laden, Osama

Birth of Biopolitics, The

Blacklist

Black Sunday

Blink of an Eye

Blogging

Blomkvist, Mikael

Blood Meridian

Body of Lies

Bolaño, Roberto

Bond, James

Bookchin, Murray

Borde, Raymond

Braham, Persephone

Braudy, Leo

Brazil

Breu, Chris

Buchan, John

Bulgaria

Burke, James Lee

Bush, George W

Butler, Judith

By Night in Chile

C

Cain, James M

Cain, Tom

Calderon, Felipe

Calvino, Italo

Cambodia

Camus, Albert

Canada

Capote, Truman

Capricorn One

Central America

Chandler, Raymond

Charleston

Chaumeton, Etienne

Chiapas

Chigurh, Anton

Chirac, Jacques

Christie, Agatha

Ciudad Juárez

Civilization and its Discontents

Clancy, Tom

Clarke, Arthur C.

Clarke, Richard A.

Clear and Present Danger

Close Call

Clough, Patricia Ticineto

Cobley, Paul

Cohen, William S.

In Cold Blood

Cold Light of Day...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Frontmatter
• Introduction: Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction
• The Bad and the Evil: Justice in the Novels of Pago Ignacio Taibo II
• Work and Death in the Global City: Natsuo Kirino’s Out as Neoliberal Noir
• “Local Hells” and State Crimes: Place, Politics, and Deviance in David Peace’s Red Riding Quartet
• The State We’re In: Global Politics and Economics in the Novels of Dominique Manotti
• The Scene of the Crime is the Crime: The Southern Border and the Representation of Violence in Cormac McCarthy and Don Winslow
• True-Crime, Crime Fiction, and Journalism in Mexico
• The Novel of Violence in Latin American Literature
• Scandinavian Crime Fiction and the Facts: Social Criticism, Epistemology, and Globalization
• John le Carré and The New Novel of Global (In)security
• Geopolitical Reality: The Thriller, Global Power, and the Logic of Revelation
• US Narratives of Nuclear Terrorism
• Backmatter