The Foreign in International Crime Fiction: Transcultural Representations

Contents
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction
	The Foreign in International Crime Fiction: Transcultural Representations
Part One
	Chapter 1
Cannibalistic Maori Behead Rupert Murdoch (Mis)representations of Antipodean Otherness in Caryl Férey’s ‘Maori Thrillers’
	Introduction
	Insider versus Outsider Status: The Stakes
	Travellers’ Tales
	From Postcolonial Ethnographic Thriller to Postmodern Pastiche
	Crime Noir
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Chapter 2
‘A Desk is a Dangerous Place from which to Watch the World’: Britishness and Foreignness in Le Carré’s
Trilogy
	The
	Trilogy
	Simulation, Illusion, Unreality and National Identity
	Travel or the Library Desk
	The Precedence of the Text: Foreigners and the Discourse of Empire
	Britishness and Englishness
	Unreal Cities
	The British Spy and Foreign Laughter
	Notes
	Chapter 3
Havana Noir: Time, Place and the Appropriation of Cuba in Crime Fiction
	Chapter 4
Shanghai, Shanghai: Placing Qiu Xiaolong’s Crime Fiction in the Landscape of Globalized Literature
	Shanghai to St Louis: Qiu’s Literary Lineage
	Shanghai Exotica: Poetry, Confucianism and Parody
	Returning to Shanghai: Translation, Reception, Audience
	Notes
	Chapter 5
Seeing Double: Representing Otherness in the Franco-Pacific Thriller
	Jean Anderson
	The Franco-Pacific Thriller
	Depicting Crime in French Polynesia
	Beyond the Stereotype: Patrice Guirao
	New Caledonian Crime Fiction: Daniel Zié-Mé
	Conclusion
	Notes
Part Two
	Chapter 6
‘Don’t Forget the Tejedor’: Community and Identity in the Crime Fiction of Rosa Ribas
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Chapter 7
An American in Paris or Opposites Attract Dominique Sylvain’s ‘In-Between’ Bicultural Detective Stories
	Dominique Sylvain, Ingrid and Lola
	Sylvain and the ‘Post-Literary’ Era
	Dominique Sylvain and Crime Writing
	Reconstruction, Friendship and Coexistence
	Coexistence, Youth and Plurality
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Chapter 8
Arthur Upfield and Philip McLaren Pioneering Partners in Australian Ethnographic Crime Fiction
	Upfield’s Outsider Perspective
	How does McLaren Develop the ‘Insider’ Point of View?
	How does Upfield Stand the Test of Time?
	Notes
	Chapter 9
From Wolf to Wolf-Man: Foreignness and Self Alterity in Fred Vargas’s
	Paris, Capital of Crime and Self-Alterity
	Intertextuality: The Case of
	Conclusion: Between Languages and Traditions
	Notes
	Chapter 10
Others Knowing Others: Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy and Peter Høeg’s
	Others
	Investigative Technique
	Others Knowing Others
	Fermat’s Last Theorem
	Notes
	Chapter 11
Smog, Tweed and Foreign Bedevilment: Bourland’s Twenty-First-Century Remake of the Sherlock Holmes Crime Story
	The Mixture: Take One at Bedtime
	Fabrice Bourland: Tweed
	Notes
Part Three
	Chapter 12
‘The Meanest Devil of the Pit’: British Representations of the German Character in Edwardian Juvenile Spy Fiction, 1900–14
	The Background
	Juvenile Literature Against the Enemy
	The 3d Library Series
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Chapter 13
Reading Others: Foreigners and the Foreign in Roberto Arlt’s Detective Fiction
	The Modern City: Urbanization, Immigrants, Crime and Criminals
	Arlt and the
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Chapter 14
Who is the Foreigner? The Representation of the Migrant in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction
	Massimo Carlotto’s Dystopian Migrant
	Andrea Camilleri’s Return Migrants
	A Different Perspective and a Divided Identity
	Notes
	Chapter 15
Images of Turks in Recent German Crime Fiction A Comparative Case Study in Xenophobia
	Drawing Conclusions: Novel vs Film
	Notes
	Chapter 16
The Representation of Chinese Characters in Leonardo Padura’s
(2000): Sinophobia or Sinophilia?
	Notes
Bibliography
Index