The Foreign in International Crime Fiction

Contributors Introduction Part 1: Inside Out or Outside In? The Scene of the Crime as Exotic D cor Chapter 1: Cannibalistic Maori Behead Rupert Murdoch: (Mis)representations of Antipodean Otherness in Caryl F rey's 'Maori Thrillers Ellen Carter and Deborah Walker Chapter 2: 'A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world': Britishness and Foreignness in le Carr 's Karla Trilogy Sabine Vanacker Chapter 3: Havana Noir: Time, Place and the Appropriation of Cuba in Crime Fiction Philip Swanson Chapter 4: Shanghai, Shanghai: Placing Qiu Xiaolong's Crime Fiction in the Landscape of Globalized Literature Hui Luo Chapter 5: Seeing Double: Representing Others in the Franco-Pacific Thriller Jean Anderson Part 2: Private Eyes, Hybrid Eyes: The In-Between Detective Chapter 6: 'Don't Forget the Tejedor': Community and Identity in the Crime Fiction of Rosa Ribas Stewart King Chapter 7: An American in Paris or Opposites Attract: Dominique Sylvain's 'In-Between'Bicultural Detective Stories France Grenaudier-Klijn Chapter 8: Arthur Upfield and Philip McLaren: Pioneering Partners in Australian Ethnographic Crime Fiction John and Marie Ramsland Chapter 9: From Wolf to Wolf-Man: Foreignness and Self-Alterity in Fred Vargas's L'Homme l'envers Alistair Rolls Chapter 10: Others Knowing Others: Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy and Peter H eg's Smilla's Sense of Snow Andrew Nestingen and Paula Arvas Chapter 11: Smog, Tweed and Foreign Bedevilment: Bourland's Twenty-First-Century Remake of the Sherlock Holmes Crime Story Keren Chiaroni Part 3: When Evil Walks Abroad - Towards a Politics of Otherness Chapter 12: 'The Meanest Devil of the Pit': British Representations of the German Character in Edwardian Juvenile Spy Fiction, 1900-1914 Andrew Francis Chapter 13. Reading Others: Foreigners and the Foreign in Roberto Arlt's Detective Fiction Carolina Miranda Chapter 14: Who is the Foreigner? The Representation of the Migrant in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction Barbara

Jean Anderson is Associate Professor at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and Director of the New Zealand Centre for Literary Translation. She is the Editor of The New Zealand Journal of French Studies. Carolina Miranda is Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Barbara Pezzotti is a journalist and Teaching Fellow in Italian at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.