Crime Fiction and Ecology:From the Local to the Global

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Ashman, Nathan (2025) Crime Fiction and Ecology:From the Local to the Global. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9781009539319

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Abstract

his 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.

Item Type: Book
Uncontrolled Keywords: sdg 13 - climate action,sdg 16 - peace, justice and strong institutions ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Creative Writing Research Group
Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Modern and Contemporary Writing Research Group
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Date Deposited: 03 Feb 2025 12:31
Last Modified: 09 Feb 2025 07:30
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/98349
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