Crime Fiction and Ecology: From the Local to the Global

Author:   Nathan Ashman (The University of East Anglia)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781009358637


Pages:   84
Publication Date:   30 January 2025
Format:   Paperback
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Crime Fiction and Ecology: From the Local to the Global


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This Element examines how contemporary ecological crime narratives are responding to the scales and complexities of the global climate crisis. It opens with the suggestion that there are certain formal limits to the genre's capacity to accommodate and interrogate these multifaceted dynamics within its typical stylistic and thematic bounds. Using a comparative methodological approach that draws connections and commonalities between literary crime texts from across a range of geographical locales – including works from Asia, Europe, Africa, South America, North America and Oceana – it therefore seeks to uncover examples of world crime fictions that are cultivating new forms of environmental awareness through textual strategies capable of conceiving of the planet as a whole. This necessitates a movement away from considering crime fictions in the context of their distinct and separate national literary traditions, instead emphasising the global and transnational connections between works.

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Author:   Nathan Ashman (The University of East Anglia)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.135kg
ISBN:  

9781009358637


ISBN 10:   1009358634
Pages:   84
Publication Date:   30 January 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Introduction: Ecological Crime Fiction: From the Local to the Global; 1. 'Continuities of Experience': Mapping the Global through the Local; 2. The 'Glocal' Turn: Ecological Crime Fiction and the Re/Deterritorialised State; 3. 'Some New Thing': Speculative Futures and Hybrid Ecological Crime Fiction; Conclusion: Plotting Against Climate Change.

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