The Foreign in International Crime Fiction: Transcultural Representations

Brief Description: Reading texts from across the world, this book examines the depiction of 'the foreigner' in popular 20th and 21st century crime writing. Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Contributors\ Introduction \ Part 1: Inside Out or Outside In? The Scene of the Crime as ExoticDecor \ Chapter 1: Cannibalistic Maori Behead Rupert Murdoch: (Mis)representations of Antipodean Othernessin Caryl Ferey's 'Maori Thrillers EllenCarter and Deborah Walker \ Chapter 2: 'A desk is a dangerous place fromwhich to watch the world': Britishness and Foreignness in le Carre's KarlaTrilogy Sabine Vanacker \ Chapter 3: Havana Noir: Time, Place and the Appropriation of Cuba in Crime Fiction Philip Swanson \ Chapter 4: Shanghai, Shanghai: Placing Qiu Xiaolong's Crime Fiction in the Landscape of GlobalizedLiterature Hui Luo \ Chapter 5: Seeing Double: Representing Others in the Franco-Pacific Thriller Jean Anderson \ Part 2: Private Eyes, Hybrid Eyes: The In-Between Detective \ Chapter6: 'Don't Forget the Tejedor': Community and Identity in the Crime Fiction ofRosa Ribas Stewart King \ Chapter 7: An American in Paris or Opposites Attract: Dominique Sylvain's'In-Between'Bicultural Detective Stories FranceGrenaudier-Klijn \ Chapter 8: Arthur Upfield and Philip McLaren: PioneeringPartners in Australian Ethnographic Crime Fiction John and Marie Ramsland \ Chapter 9: From Wolf to Wolf-Man: Foreignness and Self-Alterity in Fred Vargas's L'Homme a l'envers Alistair Rolls \Chapter 10: OthersKnowing Others: Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy and Peter Hoeg's Smilla'sSense of Snow Andrew Nestingen and PaulaArvas \ Chapter 11: Smog, Tweed and Foreign Bedevilment: Bourland'sTwenty-First-Century Remake of the Sherlock Holmes Crime StoryKeren Chiaroni \ Part 3: When Evil Walks Abroad - Towards a Politics ofOtherness \ Chapter12: 'The Meanest Devil of the Pit': British Representations of the GermanCharacter in Edwardian Juvenile Spy Fiction, 1900-1914 Andrew Francis \ Chapter 13. Reading Others: Foreigners and theForeign in Roberto Arlt's Detective Fiction CarolinaMiranda \ Chapter 14: Who is the Foreigner? The Representation of theMigrant in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction Barbara Pezzotti \ Chapter 15: Images of Turks in Recent GermanCrime Fiction: A Comparative Study in Xenophobia Margaret Sutherland \ 16. The Representation of Chinese Charactersin Leonardo Padura's La cola de la serpiente (2000): Sinophobia or Sinophilia? Carlos Uxo \ Bibliography \ Index

Contributor Bio:  Anderson, Jean The winner of five best cookbook awards (Tastemaker, James Beard, IACP) and a member of the James Beard Cookbook Hall of Fame, Jean Anderson writes for "Bon App?tit", "Food & Wine", "Cottage Living", "Gourmet", "More", and other national publications. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Contributor Bio:  Pezzotti, Barbara Jean Anderson is Associate Professor at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and Director of the New Zealand Centre for Literary Translation. She is the Editor of The New Zealand Journal of French Studies. Contributor Bio:  Miranda, Carolina Jean Anderson is Associate Professor at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and Director of the New Zealand Centre for Literary Translation. She is the Editor of The New Zealand Journal of French Studies.