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Contemporary French and Scandinavian Crime Fiction : Citizenship, Gender and Ethnicity.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: International Crime Fictions SeriesPublisher: La Vergne : Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (180 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781786837202
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Contemporary French and Scandinavian Crime FictionDDC classification:
  • 839.53087209
LOC classification:
  • PQ1276.D4 G793 2021
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: The Structure of Crime Fiction Revolutions -- 1. Social and Literary Models in Crisis -- 2. Individual and Collective Identities in the Twenty-first Century -- PART II: Gender and Genre -- 3. Gender and Sexuality in the femikrimi and the polar au féminin -- 4. The Figure of the Prostitute -- PART III: Cultures in Migration -- 5. Bled and Banlieue in French Crime Fiction -- 6. Self and Other in Scandinavian Crime Fiction -- Conclusion: Closing the Case -- Notes -- Selected bibliography.
Summary: Through a comparative analysis of twelve literary case studies, this book investigates societal discourses relating to citizenship, class, gender and ethnicity within the structures of the Scandinavian welfare state and French Republican universalism.
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: The Structure of Crime Fiction Revolutions -- 1. Social and Literary Models in Crisis -- 2. Individual and Collective Identities in the Twenty-first Century -- PART II: Gender and Genre -- 3. Gender and Sexuality in the femikrimi and the polar au féminin -- 4. The Figure of the Prostitute -- PART III: Cultures in Migration -- 5. Bled and Banlieue in French Crime Fiction -- 6. Self and Other in Scandinavian Crime Fiction -- Conclusion: Closing the Case -- Notes -- Selected bibliography.

Through a comparative analysis of twelve literary case studies, this book investigates societal discourses relating to citizenship, class, gender and ethnicity within the structures of the Scandinavian welfare state and French Republican universalism.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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