Transnationality

Pezzotti, Barbara

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“…Recent crime fiction scholarship, nevertheless, has begun to challenge the dominant focus on the local (i.e., the national) in crime fiction and has instead sought to explore the transnational connections that have always existed in the crime genre (Schmid; King; Pepper; Pepper and Schmid; Gulddal et al; Pezzotti). In a brilliantly argued study, David Schmid charts how crime narratives make any number of places meaningful, from locked rooms, manor houses, cities, and regions to the entire planet.…”

Section: Place and Environmental Crime Fictionmentioning

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CrimateFiction and the Environmental Imagination of Place

King¹

2021

The J of Popular Culture

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HE THEME OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION AND HUMAN-INDUCEDclimate change has become a staple of fiction and visual culture in the first decades of the twenty-first century. Indeed, the seeming ubiquity of environmental and climate fiction-or cli-fi for short-has led Mads Rosendahl Thomsen to identify it as one of four prominent themes in contemporary world literature (98,. 1 To date, critical attention to this phenomenon has centered primarily on "'literary' and middle-brow" fiction (Trexler 7) as well as science fiction (Milner and Burgmann). Nevertheless, there is also a substantial corpus of crime novels from around the world that investigate and interrogate issues of environmental damage and ecological (in)justice. These novels have been identified variously as environmental crime fiction, "nature-oriented mystery novels" (Murphy 143), "eco-thrillers" (McKie), "econoir" (K. Bishop 9), "ecologically conscious detective fiction" (Bandyopadhyay 70), and "ecological crime fiction" (Walton 115).These works of environmental, etc., crime fiction have not gone unnoticed by ecocritical scholars or by crime fiction scholars who employ ecocritical approaches to these novels. At its most basic, ecocriticism combines literary, film, and art analysis with environmental studies in order to better comprehend the ways in which the imaginative arts facilitate or, indeed, hinder interspecies connections (Buell et al. 418). Ecocritical approaches range from the study of representations of nature, understood as both wilderness and built environments (Buell, Future 22), to exploring expressions of environmental concerns (land degradation, pollution, species extinction, etc.) and,

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Section: Place and Environmental Crime Fictionmentioning

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CrimateFiction and the Environmental Imagination of Place

King¹

2021

The J of Popular Culture

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Transnational Crime in Deon Meyer’s Devil’s Peak and Santiago Gamboa’s Night Prayers

Naidu

2020

Transnational Crime Fiction

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Soft border, Soft-boiled: Cultural and Environmental Crime in Howard Engel’s Niagara Frontier Detective Novels

Jones

2023

Crime Fiction Studies

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This paper reads Howard Engel’s novels Murder on Location (1982) and Dead and Buried (1990) through border theory and as a form of border theory. Engel uses a soft-boiled comic Canadian variant of the hard-boiled American detective novel to explore sites, situations, and symbols of national sovereignty and examine cross-border cultural and ecological flows across the ‘soft border’ between Canada and the United States along the Niagara frontier, where Engel sets his Benny Cooperman series (1980–2018).

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Transnationality

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CrimateFiction and the Environmental Imagination of Place

CrimateFiction and the Environmental Imagination of Place

Transnational Crime in Deon Meyer’s Devil’s Peak and Santiago Gamboa’s Night Prayers

Soft border, Soft-boiled: Cultural and Environmental Crime in Howard Engel’s Niagara Frontier Detective Novels

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