Contemporary French and Scandinavian Crime Fiction: citizenship, gender and ethnicity
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Contemporary French and Scandinavian Crime Fiction: citizenship, gender and ethnicity
By (Author) Anne Grydehoj
University of Wales Press
University of Wales Press
12th October 2021
United Kingdom
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Welfare and benefit systems
839.53087209
Physical Properties
Hardback
272
Width 138mm, Height 216mm
Description
A comparative approach to French and Scandinavian crime fiction.
This book offers a study of Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and French crime fiction from 1965 to the present. Anne Grydehj presents twelve literary case studies to examine how the genre responded to shifting social realities. The books analysis focuses on the way that crime fiction internalized themes regarding the French model of republican universalism and the Scandinavian welfare stateboth of which were routinely characterized as being in a state of crisis at the end of the twentieth century. Adopting a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the book investigates the interplay between contemporary Scandinavian and French crime narratives as it considers the way these novels engaged with the relationship between state and citizen through the lens of class, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity.
Author Bio
Anne Grydehj is Senior Teaching Fellow in UCLs Department of Scandinavian Studies, where she teaches Danish language and culture. She has authored numerous articles on Scandinavian crime fiction.
