Cross-Border Crime in Contemporary Detective Fiction: Bodies on the Line

by Manina Jones

Exploring the reciprocal relevance of critical border studies and popular detective fiction, this book asks how and why representations of cross-border crime have taken such a central place in the North American and Western European popular imagination. A recent proliferation of crime novels, television series, and films - instances of "border noir " -- attests to exigent anxieties, conflicts, and desires around the permeability and security of bodies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138839965
• ISBN13: 9781138839960
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 228 Pages
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"