![]() ![]() Table of contents : Preface Contents 1 Introduction: German and International Crime Fiction 2 The Beginnings of Swiss Detective Literature: Glauser and Dürrenmatt 3 Modernity and Melancholia: Austrian Crime Fiction 4 The Soziokrimi or Neuer Deutscher Kriminalroman 5 Regionalism and Modernism in Recent German Crime Fiction (1990–2015) 6 Female Empowerment: Women’s Crime Fiction in German 7 Crime Fiction as Memory Discourse: Historical Crime Fiction from Germany 8 The Legacy of the ‘Third Reich’: Reworking the Nazi Past in Contemporary German Crime Fiction 9 Blood, Sweat and Fears: Investigating the Other in Contemporary German Crime Fiction 10 Crime Fiction and the Literary Field in Germany: An Overview 11 Portal to the Humanities: Teaching German Crime Fiction in the American Academy 12 Contemporary German Crime Fiction Authors Contemporary German Crime Fiction: A Bibliography Contributors Index Citation preview ![]()
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