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From Euro-noir to Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 July 2020

Jan Baetens
Affiliation:
KU Leuven/University of Leuven, Faculty of Arts, 21 Blijde Inkomststraat, PB 3311, 3000Leuven, Belgium. Email: jan.baetens@kuleuven.be
Fred Truyen
Affiliation:
KU Leuven/University of Leuven, Faculty of Arts, 21 Blijde Inkomststraat, PB 3311, 3000Leuven, Belgium. Email: jan.baetens@kuleuven.be

Abstract

This introduction briefly deals with the major orientations of this European Review Focus on ‘European crime fiction’. It first specifies what is meant by ‘Europe’ and which type of questions can be asked of crime fiction in view of a better understanding of Europe’s multiple and changing identities. It then presents the various contributions by linking them with the three fundamental questions of (1) circulation of crime fiction, (2) expansion of crime fiction in the broader cultural, social and economic field, and (3) the relevance of crime fiction for a thorough reflection on some properly European aspects of culture and society.

Type
Focus: Crime Fiction as a Mirror of Europe’s Changing Identities
Copyright
© 2020 Academia Europaea

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