Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction: A World of Crime (Crime Files)

Why has crime fiction become a global genre? How do writers use crime fiction to reflect upon the changing nature of crime and policing in our contemporary world? This book argues that the globalization of crime fiction should not be celebrated uncritically. Instead, it looks at the new forms and techniques writers are using to examine the crimes and policing practices that define a rapidly changing world. In doing so, this collection of essays examines how the relationship between global crime, capitalism, and policing produces new configurations of violence in crime fiction – and asks whether the genre can find ways of analyzing and even opposing such violence as part of its necessarily limited search for justice both within and beyond the state. The Bad And The Evil : Justice In The Novels Of Pago Ignacio Taibo Ii / David Schmid -- Work And Death In The Global City : Natsuo Kirino's Out As Neoliberal Noir / Christopher Breu -- Local Hells And State Crimes : Place, Politics, And Deviance In David Peace's Red Riding Quartet / Katy Shaw -- The State We're In : Global Politics And Economics In The Novels Of Dominique Manotti / Véronique Desnain -- The Scene Of The Crime Is The Crime : The Southern Border And The Representation Of Violence In Cormac Mccarthy And Don Winslow / Casey Shoop -- True-crime, Crime Fiction, And Journalism In Mexico / Persephone Braham -- The Novel Of Violence In Latin American Literature / José-vicente Tavares-dos-santos, Enio Passiani, And Julio Souto Salom -- Scandinavian Crime Fiction And The Facts : Social Criticism, Epistemology, And Globalization / Andrew Nestingen -- John Le Carré And The New Novel Of Global (in)security / Andrew Pepper -- Geopolitical Reality : The Thriller, Global Power, And The Logic Of Revelation / Paul Cobley -- Us Narratives Of Nuclear Terrorism / David Seed. Andrew Pepper, David Schmid, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction: Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction....Pages 1-19 The Bad and the Evil: Justice in the Novels of Pago Ignacio Taibo II....Pages 21-38 Work and Death in the Global City: Natsuo Kirino’s Out as Neoliberal Noir....Pages 39-57 “Local Hells” and State Crimes: Place, Politics, and Deviance in David Peace’s Red Riding Quartet....Pages 59-77 The State We’re In: Global Politics and Economics in the Novels of Dominique Manotti....Pages 79-98 The Scene of the Crime is the Crime: The Southern Border and the Representation of Violence in Cormac McCarthy and Don Winslow....Pages 99-118 True-Crime, Crime Fiction, and Journalism in Mexico....Pages 119-139 The Novel of Violence in Latin American Literature....Pages 141-157 Scandinavian Crime Fiction and the Facts: Social Criticism, Epistemology, and Globalization....Pages 159-177 John le Carré and The New Novel of Global (In)security....Pages 179-196 Geopolitical Reality: The Thriller, Global Power, and the Logic of Revelation....Pages 197-216 US Narratives of Nuclear Terrorism....Pages 217-237 Back Matter....Pages 239-247