The Foreign in International Crime Fiction Related Titles Adapting Detective Fiction, Neil McCaw Crime Culture, Edited by Bran Nicol, Patricia Pulham and Eugene McNulty The Foreign in International Crime Fiction Transcultural Representations Edited by Jean Anderson, Carolina Miranda and Barbara Pezzotti Continuum International Publishing Group The Tower Building 80 Maiden Lane 11 York Road Suite 704 London SE1 7NX New York NY 10038 www.continuumbooks.com © Jean Anderson, Carolina Miranda, Barbara Pezzotti and Contributors, 2012 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: HB: 978-1-4411-2817-1 e-ISBN: 978-1-4411-7703-2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The foreign in international crime fiction : transcultural representations/edited by Jean Anderson, Carolina Miranda and Barbara Pezzotti. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4411-2817-1 (hardcover) – ISBN 978-1-4411-7703-2 (pdf) – ISBN 978-1-4411-8198-5 (ePub) 1. Detective and mystery stories–History and criticism. 2. Immigrants in literature. 3. Other (Philosophy) in literature. 4. Noir fiction–History and criticism. 5. Crime writing. I. Anderson, Jean, 1951- II. Miranda, Carolina. III. Pezzotti, Barbara. PN3448.D4F57 2012 809.3’872--dc23 2011051840 Typeset by Deanta Global Publishing Services, Chennai, India Contents Acknowledgements viii Contributors ix Introduction 1 Part One: Inside Out or Outside In? The Scene of the Crime as Exotic Décor Chapter 1 Cannibalistic Māori Behead Rupert Murdoch: (Mis)representations of Antipodean Otherness in Caryl Férey’s ‘Māori Thrillers’ 9 Ellen Carter and Deborah Walker-Morrison Chapter 2 ‘A Desk is a Dangerous Place from which to Watch the World’: Britishness and Foreignness in Le Carré’s Karla Trilogy 22 Sabine Vanacker Chapter 3 Havana Noir: Time, Place and the Appropriation of Cuba in Crime Fiction 35 Philip Swanson Chapter 4 Shanghai, Shanghai: Placing Qiu Xiaolong’s Crime Fiction in the Landscape of Globalized Literature 47 Luo Hui Chapter 5 Seeing Double: Representing Otherness in the Franco-Pacific Thriller 60 Jean Anderson vi Contents Part Two: Private Eyes, Hybrid Eyes: The In-Between Detective Chapter 6 ‘Don’t Forget the Tejedor’: Community and Identity in the Crime Fiction of Rosa Ribas 75 Stewart King Chapter 7 An American in Paris or Opposites Attract: Dominique Sylvain’s ‘In-Between’ Bicultural Detective Stories 87 France Grenaudier-Klijn Chapter 8 Arthur Upfield and Philip McLaren: Pioneering Partners in Australian Ethnographic Crime Fiction 99 John Ramsland and Marie Ramsland Chapter 9 From Wolf to Wolf-Man: Foreignness and Self-Alterity in Fred Vargas’s L’Homme à l’envers 112 Alistair Rolls Chapter 10 Others Knowing Others: Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy and Peter Høeg’s Smilla’s Sense of Snow 124 Andrew Nestingen and Paula Arvas Chapter 11 Smog, Tweed and Foreign Bedevilment: Bourland’s Twenty-First-Century Remake of the Sherlock Holmes Crime Story 137 Keren Chiaroni Part Three: When Evil Walks Abroad – Towards a Politics of Otherness Chapter 12 ‘The Meanest Devil of the Pit’: British Representations of the German Character in Edwardian Juvenile Spy Fiction, 1900–14 153 Andrew Francis Chapter 13 Reading Others: Foreigners and the Foreign in Roberto Arlt’s Detective Fiction 165 Carolina Miranda Chapter 14 Who is the Foreigner? The Representation of the Migrant in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction 176 Barbara Pezzotti Contents vii Chapter 15 Images of Turks in Recent German Crime Fiction: A Comparative Case Study in Xenophobia 188 Margaret Sutherland Chapter 16 The Representation of Chinese Characters in Leonardo Padura’s La Cola de la Serpiente (2000): Sinophobia or Sinophilia? 200 Carlos Uxó Bibliography 213 Index 231 Acknowledgements Editing a volume such as the present one is a demanding task, and the editors would like to acknowledge here the efforts of the many people who assisted, from contributing authors and administrative staff to editorial expert Heather Elder. We are especially grateful to the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the School of Languages and Cultures, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, for support received. Contributors Jean Anderson is associate professor of French at Victoria University of Wellington. She works mainly in the fields of French Pacific literature and contemporary and fin-de-siècle women’s writing. She is also a literary translator: her most recent publication is Ananda Devi’s Indian Tango (2011). Paula Arvas received her PhD from the University of Helsinki in 2009. In her dissertation, she analyses Finnish crime fiction of the 1940s. Together with Andrew Nestingen, she has edited a collection of articles: Scandinavian Crime Fiction (2010). She has written several articles about crime fiction and her non- academic publications include a crime fiction cookbook. Ellen Carter is a doctoral student at the University of Auckland and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Her interests lie in the fields of French crime fiction, cultural studies and reader reception. Keren Chiaroni is senior lecturer in French at Victoria University. Her special ties include the history of design for performance and cultural links between France and New Zealand. Her latest book is The Last of the Human Freedoms (2011). Andrew Francis is a Wellington, New Zealand-based researcher. His interests include the New Zealand home front during the First World War, the history of British imperial advertising and British film propaganda of the Second World War. He is currently writing a book on the treatment of enemy aliens in New Zealand during the First World War. France Grenaudier-Klijn is senior lecturer and French subject convenor at Massey University, New Zealand. Her main research interests are in the fields of post-Holocaust representation, French crime fiction and fin-de-siècle women’s writing. She is also an academic and literary translator. She is currently working on a book on the function of femininity in Patrick Modiano’s work. Luo Hui teaches Chinese language and literature at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His research focuses on the concept of ‘minor