Call for papers | Narratives of Mobility : The Transnational and Transcultural Turn in European Crime Fiction
Narratives of Mobility: The Transnational and Transcultural Turn in European Crime Fiction
Edited by Maurizio Ascari, Silvia Baroni, Sara Casoli
This issue of Scritture migranti (15/2021) aims to investigate a phenomenon that is highly characteristic of contemporary crime fiction on a global level: the representation and thematization of multiculturalism, international mobility, and transcultural identities. Thanks to its transnational circulation and its aptitude to highlight social and political issues throughout the lens of the investigation, crime fiction offers a privileged perspective through which to observe the encounters and the conflicts associated with social and cultural mobility. Moreover, the critical reflections on the connections between social norms and otherness expressed in crime fiction encourage also to take into consideration the mobility of the genre itself in terms of genre-blending.