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While crime fiction is one of the most widespread of all literary genres, this is the first book to treat it in its full global is the first book to treat crime fiction in its full global and plurilingual dimensions, taking the genre seriously as a participant in the international sphere of world literature. In a wide-ranging panorama of the genre, twenty critics discuss crime fiction from Bulgaria, China, Israel, Mexico, Scandinavia, Kenya, Catalonia, and Tibet, among other locales. By bringing crime fiction into the sphere of world literature, Crime Fiction as World Literature gives new insights not only into the genre itself but also into the transnational flow of literature in the globalized mediascape of contemporary popular culture.>
About the author
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? (Princeton University Press, 2003; translated into seven languages). Among his other publications are How to Read World Literature (Blackwell, 2009), The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (Henry Holt, 2007), World Literature in Theory (edited; Wiley Blackwell, 2014), The Routledge Companion to World Literature (edited with Theo D’haen and Djelal Kadir, Routledge, 2012), The Longman Anthology of World Literature (Longman, 2004. Six vols., General editor, with twelve co-editors), and The Longman Anthology of British Literature (Longman, 1998, General editor, with eleven co-editors).
Theo D’haen is Professor of English and American Literatures, KU Leuven, Belgium. He is the author or editor of 53 books, including American Literature: A History (Routledge, 2014), The Routledge Concise History of World Literature (Routledge, 2012), World Literature: A Reader (edited with César Domínguez and Mads Rosendahl, Routledge, 2013), A World History of Literature (Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium, 2012), and The Routledge Companion to World Literature (edited with David Damrosch and Djelal Kadir, Routledge, 2012).
