Foreign in International Crime Fiction

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. Carolina Miranda is Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.Barbara Pezzotti is a journalist and Teaching Fellow in Italian at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Ranging from early twentieth-century British spy stories to contemporary Scandinavian thrillers and covering settings that include Argentina, the French Pacific, Cuba, Australia, New Zealand, and much of Europe, the sixteen essays in this important collection ask crucial questions about the ways in which the encounter with the foreign has been staged in Western literature... The Foreign in International Crime Fiction is indispensable reading not only for scholars of the genre but also of ethnography, and of post-colonial and travel literature.

• ContributorsIntroductionPart 1: Inside Out or Outside In? The Scene of the Crime as Exotic DécorChapter 1: Cannibalistic Maori Behead Rupert Murdoch: (Mis)representations of Antipodean Othernessin Caryl Férey's ‘Maori Thrillers Ellen Carter and Deborah WalkerChapter 2: ‘A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world': Britishness and Foreignness in le Carré's Karla Trilogy Sabine Vanacker Chapter 3: Havana Noir: Time, Place and the Appropriation of Cuba in Crime Fiction Philip SwansonChapter 4: Shanghai, Shanghai: Placing Qiu Xiaolong's Crime Fiction in the Landscape of GlobalizedLiterature Hui LuoChapter 5: Seeing Double: Representing Others in the Franco-Pacific Thriller Jean AndersonPart 2: Private Eyes, Hybrid Eyes: The In-Between DetectiveChapter 6: ‘Don't Forget the Tejedor': Community and Identity in the Crime Fiction of Rosa Ribas Stewart KingChapter 7: An American in Paris or Opposites Attract: Dominique Sylvain's ‘In-Between'Bicultural Detective Stories France Grenaudier-KlijnChapter 8: Arthur Upfield and Philip McLaren: Pioneering Partners in Australian Ethnographic Crime Fiction John and Marie RamslandChapter 9: From Wolf to Wolf-Man: Foreignness and Self-Alterity in Fred Vargas's L'Homme à l'envers Alistair RollsChapter 10: Others Knowing Others: Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy and Peter Høeg's Smilla's Sense of Snow Andrew Nestingen and Paula Arvas Chapter 11: Smog, Tweed and Foreign Bedevilment: Bourland's Twenty-First-Century Remake of the Sherlock Holmes Crime Story Keren Chiaroni Part 3: When Evil Walks Abroad - Towards a Politics of Otherness Chapter 12: ‘The Meanest Devil of the Pit': British Representations of the German Character in Edwardian Juvenile Spy Fiction, 1900-1914 Andrew FrancisChapter 13. Reading Others: Foreigners and the Foreign in Roberto Arlt's Detective Fiction CarolinaMirandaChapter 14: Who is the Foreigner? The Representation of the Migrant in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction Barbara PezzottiChapter 15: Images of Turks in Recent German Crime Fiction: A Comparative Study in Xenophobia Margaret SutherlandChapter 16. The Representation of Chinese Characters in Leonardo Padura's La cola de la serpiente (2000): Sinophobia or Sinophilia? Carlos UxóBibliographyIndex