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Table of contents :
Cover
Title page
Copyright page
Crime Fiction and Ecology: From the Local to the Global
Contents
Introduction: Ecological Crime Fiction – From the Local to the Global
‘A Sense of Planet’: World Crime Fiction
and the Imagination of Place
Ecological Crime Fiction: From the Local to the Global
1 ‘Continuities of Experience’: Mapping the Global through the Local
‘This Has Everything to Do with Oil’: Crude Criminality in Black
Water Rising and Hurricane Season
‘Benevolent Colonialism’: Capitalism, Colonialism and Environmental Justice in Madukka the River Serpent
and Cold Skies
2 The ‘Glocal’ Turn: Ecological Crime Fiction and the Re/Deterritorialised State
Local Crimes from Global Seeds: Environmental Crime and the
Reterritorialised State in Pale Horses and Don’t Cry Tai Lake
Broken Borders and Climate Dystopias: Environmental Crime
and the Deterritorialised State in The Healer and Earthly Remains
3 ‘Some New Thing’: Speculative Futures and Hybrid Ecological Crime Fiction
Satirical Eco-thrillers: Gabriela Alemán’s Poso Wells
and Yun Ko-eun’s The Disaster Tourist
‘People Aren’t the Future’: Ecocentric Posterity and Speculative Noir in Alexandra Kleeman’s Something New Under the Sun
and Jeff VanderMeer’s Hummingbird Salamander
Conclusion: Plotting Against Climate Change
Conclusion: Plotting Against Climate Change
Works Cited

Crime Fiction and Ecology
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