Search results for "Crime fiction"
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Le détective, entre intime et société
2019
International audience
From whodunnit to whydunnit : the transformation of the traditional detective story into a modern crime novel
2008
“Into the city, deep under the city”: Lauren Beukes’s Zoo City, a hardboiled novel?
2013
International audience
From Mobile Crimes to Crimes of Mobility
2020
Piipponen, Mäntymäki and Rodi-Risberg suggest that many contemporary crime narratives across the globe host a heightened interest in diverse and ambiguous mobilities, border crossings and borderlands. They propose that such mobilities and crossings reflect on recent sociocultural developments on local and global levels and communicate specific geopolitical anxieties. They position their own mobilities research perspective within existing crime fiction scholarship, especially within the so-called transnational and spatial turns. Introducing some key observations of mobilities research, they suggest that mobility can be considered both as an object of study in its own right and a critical len…
Mapping futuristic South African literature: the intersection between history, crime fiction and the future in Masande Ntshanga’s Triangulum (2019)
2023
« LITTERATUR och LAG » : Skandinavisk kultur och litteratur i ett internationellt och tvärvetenskapligt perspektiv
2014
Raksti no Starptautiskās Skandināvistikas studiju asociācijas (IASS) 29. zinātniskās konferences Rīgā un Daugavpilī 2012.
Polar Bear in 'Fortitude'. Affective Aesthetics and Politics of Climate Change
2021
In the first season of the television Eco Noir crime series “Fortitude” (2015) the polar bear appears as a sticky object that embodies an ambiguous affective charge as an icon of global warming. This article discusses the ways in which the polar bear evokes viewer affect in the series through two discourses. The first one relates to violence, essentially present in crime narratives, and how the human and nonhuman animal are positioned in relation to global warming, violence and each other. It raises questions of place and belonging in a local and global context and examines how the polar bear is constructed in terms of stranger danger and victimization in relation to human animals and the t…
Les topologies imaginaires de Lauren Beukes dans Moxyland (2008) et The Shining Girls (2013)
2019
International audience; This article examines two novels published by South African writer Lauren Beukes. More specifically, it explores the way in which the two cities in which the novels are set blur a number of boundaries, thus creating paradoxical, and intermedial, topologies.