Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. 1 Introduction: German and International Crime Fiction 1
5. 2 The Beginnings of Swiss Detective Literature: Glauser and Dürrenmatt 17
6. 3 Modernity and Melancholia: Austrian Crime Fiction 43
7. 4 The Soziokrimi or Neuer Deutscher Kriminalroman 63
8. 5 Regionalism and Modernism in Recent German Crime Fiction (1990–2015) 81
9. 6 Female Empowerment: Women’s Crime Fiction in German 105
10. 7 Crime Fiction as Memory Discourse: Historical Crime Fiction from Germany 123
11. 8 The Legacy of the ‘Third Reich’: Reworking the Nazi Past in Contemporary German Crime Fiction 159
12. 9 Blood, Sweat and Fears: Investigating the Other in Contemporary German Crime Fiction 183
13. 10 Crime Fiction and the Literary Field in Germany: An Overview 207
14. 11 Portal to the Humanities: Teaching German Crime Fiction in the American Academy 229
15. 12 Contemporary German Crime Fiction Authors 251
16. Contemporary German Crime Fiction: A Bibliography 305
17. Contributors 325
18. Index 329