Introduction. Narratives of Mobility in the Crime Genre

Maurizio Ascari; Silvia Baroni; Sara Casoli

doi:10.6092/issn.2035-7141/14558

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Maurizio Ascari University of Bologna

Maurizio Ascari teaches English Literature at the University of Bologna. He has published books and essays on crime fiction (A Counter-History of Crime Fiction, Palgrave, 2007, nominated for the Edgar Awards), transcultural literature, and inter-art exchanges. He is author of several papers. He has also edited and translated works by Henry James, Katherine Mansfield, William Faulkner, Jack London and William Wilkie Collins.
Silvia Baroni University of Bologna

Silvia Baroni is Post-doc Researcher at the department of Filologia classica e italianistica at the University of Bologna; her project aims at analysing the European illustrated novel of the Nineteenth century. She has been Post-Doc Researcher for the European project DETECt H2020. She has published several articles on Italian Crime Fiction in a comparative and transmedia perspective, on the European novel of the 19th century, and on the relation between Art and Literature.
Sara Casoli University of Bologna

Sara Casoli is Post-Doc Research Fellow at the Department of the Arts at the University of Bologna, where she earned her PhD in 2019. She was part of the “DETECt – Detecting Transcultural Identity in European Popular Crime Narratives” research project. She has published a monograph titled Le forme del personaggio. Figure dell’immaginario nella serialità televisiva americana contemporanea (Mimesis 2021) and several articles for international journals and chapters in edited collections.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2035-7141/14558

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Crime fiction, Mobility, Cultural Identity, Transculturality

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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, mobility across borders, and transcultural identities. Thanks to its international circulation and its ability 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 migrancy and other forms of social and cultural mobility. As discussed in the introduction, the contributors to this issue reflect on notions such as “cultural identity”, “integration”, and “transnationality” while addressing a range of topics that includes genre blending, the representation of multi-ethnic places, expat writers and characters.

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