Investigating identities : questions of identity in contemporary international crime fiction /
Investigating Identities: Questions of Identity in Contemporary International Crime Fiction is one of the relatively few books to date which adopts a comparative approach to the study of the genre. This collection of twenty essays by international scholars, examining crime fiction production from ov...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; New York, NY :
Rodopi,
2009
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| Series: | Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ;
56 |
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| Summary: | Investigating Identities: Questions of Identity in Contemporary International Crime Fiction is one of the relatively few books to date which adopts a comparative approach to the study of the genre. This collection of twenty essays by international scholars, examining crime fiction production from over a dozen countries, confirms that a comparative approach can both shed light on processes of adaptation and appropriation of the genre within specific national, regional or local contexts, and also uncover similarities between the works of authors from very different areas |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (348 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1441606599 9042025298 904202917X 9781441606594 9789042025295 9789042029170 |
| ISSN: | 0927-5754 ; |