Crime narratives are among the most popular forms of storytelling worldwide and have played a central
role in the development of national literatures. Detective and crime novels have developed beyond borders
marked by language, culture and genre. The ability to replicate, explore, and interrogate its own
conventions is one of the defining features of all types of crime fiction. The recent worldwide success of
Scandinavian crime fiction shows that crime novels can be successfully translated into other languages
and appropriated for other cultures.
The aim of the conference is to discuss crime fiction across national borders, across cultures, across
languages, across genres, across arts and across different media. We invite papers which deal with one or
more of the following points (the list is by no means exhaustive), in any given literature and country, or in
international comparison:
Crime fiction and cultural/national identities
Crime fiction and ethnic minorities
Others and Otherness
Transnational, translocal and transcultural crime narratives
Crime Spaces
Borrowings, adaptations and transformations
Crime fiction in translation
International bestsellers
Crime Fiction as Cultural Export
Exploding the Canon: forgotten crime narratives
