<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> The topic of Otherness has been investigated from the point of view of popular culture and popular fiction studies, especially on the basis of the multiracial social environments of the United States. The challenges of addressing real or potential conflicts in areas characterised by an ethnic puzzle are to some extent similar, but at the same time differ substantively from the political, legal, and fictional world of “race.” This paper investigates these differences in the ways of overcoming ethnic stereotyping on the basis of examples taken from post-World War II crime fiction of Southern Europe, and Middle East. In communist and post-communist Eastern Central Europe there are not many instances of mediational crime fiction. This paper will point to the few, although notable exceptions, while hypothesizing on the factors that could favor in the foreseeable future the emergence and expansion of such artistic experiments in the multiethnic and multicultural province of Transylvania. </p></abstract>

The topic of Otherness has been investigated from the point of view of popular culture and popular fiction studies, especially on the basis of the multiracial social environments of the United States. The challenges of addressing real or potential conflicts in areas characterised by an ethnic puzzle are to some extent similar, but at the same time differ substantively from the political, legal, and fictional world of “race.” This paper investigates these differences in the ways of overcoming ethnic stereotyping on the basis of examples taken from post-World War II crime fiction of Southern Europe, and Middle East. In communist and post-communist Eastern Central Europe there are not many instances of mediational crime fiction. This paper will point to the few, although notable exceptions, while hypothesizing on the factors that could favor in the foreseeable future the emergence and expansion of such artistic experiments in the multiethnic and multicultural province of Transylvania.

Identity, Otherness, Crime: Detective Fiction and Interethnic Hazards

University of Bucharest Department of Literary Studies

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica

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The topic of Otherness has been investigated from the point of view of popular culture and popular fiction studies, especially on the basis of the multiracial...

Identity, Otherness, Crime: Detective Fiction and Interethnic Hazards

Publié en ligne: 30 mai 2014

Pages: 43 - 58

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2014-0004

Mots clés
crime fiction, ethnicity, race, conflict, body, post-communism, Transylvania

© 2014

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Identity, Otherness, Crime: Detective Fiction and Interethnic Hazards

Publié en ligne: 30 mai 2014

Pages: 43 - 58

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2014-0004

Mots cléscrime fiction, ethnicity, race, conflict, body, post-communism, Transylvania

© 2014

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Mots clés
crime fiction, ethnicity, race, conflict, body, post-communism, Transylvania