Crime Fiction as World Literature

Louise Nilsson is a researcher in the English Department at Stockholm University, Sweden.David Damrosch is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University, USA, where he is also Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature. Professor Damrosch is one of the world’s foremost authorities on World Literature, past President of the American Comparative Literature Association, and author or editor of 17 books, including the ground-breaking What Is World Literature? (2003; translated into seven languages). Among his other publications are How to Read World Literature (2009), The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh ( 2007), and World Literature in Theory (edited; 2014).Theo D’haen is Professor of English and American Literatures at K.U. Leuven, Belgium. He is the author or editor of 53 books, including American Literature: A History (2014), The Routledge Concise History of World Literature (2012), World Literature: A Reader (edited with César Domínguez and Mads Rosendahl, 2013), A World History of Literature (2012), and The Routledge Companion to World Literature (edited with David Damrosch and Djelal Kadir, 2012).

An insightful comparative study ... Crime Fiction as World Literature carefully deconstructs the ‘glocal’ nature of a genre defined by a combination of rather fixed tropes reflecting local themes, which provide both unique and comfortingly recognizable atmospheres.

• Introduction: Crime Fiction as World LiteratureLouise Nilsson (Stockholm University, Sweden), David Damrosch (Harvard University, USA), and Theo D’haen (K.U. Leuven, Belgium)I. Global and Local1. The Knife in the Lemon: Nordic Noir and the Glocalization of Crime FictionAndreas Hedberg (Uppsala University, Sweden)2. After Such Knowledge: The Politics of Detection in the Narconovelas of Elmer MendozaMichael Wood (Princeton University, USA)3. Red Herrings and Read Alerts: Crime and Trans-Cultural Clues in Almost Blue and Nairobi HeatTilottama Tharoor (New York University, USA)4. The Detective Is Suspended: Nordic Noir and the Welfare StateBruce Robbins (Columbia University, USA)5. Four Generations, One CrimeMichaela Bronstein (Stanford University, USA)II. Market Mechanisms6. With a Global Market in Mind: Agents, Authors and the Dissemination of Contemporary Swedish Crime FictionKarl Berglund (Uppsala University, Sweden)7. So You Think You Can Write… Handbooks for Mystery FictionAnneleen Masschelein (K.U. Leuven, Belgium) and Dirk de Geest (K.U. Leuven, Belgium)8. Covering Crime Fiction: Merging the Local into Cosmopolitan Mediascapes Louise Nilsson (Stockholm University, Sweden)9. Surrealist Noir: Aragon’s Le Cahier Noir and Pamuk’s The Black BookDelia Ungureanu (Harvard University, USA, and University of Bucharest, Romania)III. Translating Crime10. Detective Fiction in Translation: Shifting Patterns of ReceptionSusan Bassnett (University of Warwick, UK, and University of Glasgow, UK)11. Making It Ours: Translation and the Circulation of Crime Fiction in CatalanStewart King (Monash University, Australia)12. In Agatha’s Footsteps: The Cursed Goblet and Contemporary Bulgarian Crime FictionMihaela Harper (Bilkent University, Turkey)13. A Missing Literature: Dror Mishani and the Case of Israeli Crime FictionMaayan Eitan (University of Michigan, USA)14. World Detective Form and Thai Crime FictionSuradech Chotiudompant (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)IV. Holmes away from Home 15. Holmes Away from Home: The Great Detective in the Transnational Literary NetworkMichael B. Harris-Peyton (University of Delaware, USA)16. Sherlock’s Queen BeeTheo D’haen (K.U. Leuven, Belgium)17. Sherlock Holmes Came to China: Detective Fiction, Cultural Meditations, and Chinese ModernityWei Yan (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)18. A Sinister Chuckle: Sherlock in TibetDavid Damrosch (Harvard University, USA)19. Detecting Conspiracy: Boris Akunin’s Dandiacal Detective, or a Century in Queer Profiles from London to MoscowElizabeth Richmond-Garza (University of Texas at Austin, USA)Notes on ContributorsIndex