Captivating Criminality 13: Crime Fiction, Conflict, and Representation

This year’s topic, crime fiction, conflict, and representation, attempts to appeal to researchers of crime fiction in all its variety and presented on various media, ranging from the “classical” detective novel via filmic representations of crime to podcasts and social media. The aim of this conference is to show crime fiction’s engagement with conflict and representation in its multifacetedness, ranging from the domestic and personal (e.g. in domestic noir) to the international and global political (e.g. in eco thrillers or crimate fiction). Topics may include but are not limited to:• Indigenous crime fiction• Conflicts in past and present• Gender and sexuality in crime fiction• Representation and liminality• Queerness in crime fiction• Crime fiction in the age of #metoo• Crime fiction from traumatised nations• Crime Fiction and landscape• Revisionist crime fiction• Crime fiction and contemporary debates• Crime fiction and the press• Real and imagined deviance• Adaptation and interpretation• Crime fiction and form​• Generic crossings• Geographies of crime• Victimisation• Real and symbolic boundaries• Ethnicity and cultural diversity• The ideology of law and order• Technology and technological change• The media, detection and crime fiction• The post-factual age• Sociology of crime (fiction)• Crime fiction and psychology• Crimate fiction (crime fiction andclimate change)• War and global conflict• Crime fiction, illness, and disability

Author: linda.ledford-miller@scranton.edu

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