Representations of Rurality in Crime Fiction and Media Culture

 

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Whit Harrison (Harry Whittington), “Swamp Kill”, Phantom Books 508, 1952

“Setting the Scene”: Representations of Rurality in Crime Fiction and Media Culture, ICRH, Queen’s University, Belfast 15-16 June 2015
Keynotes :

Professor Benoit Tadié (University of Rennes) “Desperadoes and Backwoods Teasers: the Resilience of Rural Noir in Postwar America

Professor Paul Cloke (University of Exeter)  “Imaginative Geographies and the Production of Rural Space”

Professor Rob Kitchin (NUIM), ‘Place, Landscape and Rurality in Crime Fiction’

Invited Authors:

Brian McGilloway & Anthony Quinn, interviewed by Andrew Pepper : ‘Rurality and rural landscapes in Irish Crime Fiction’,  Monday 15th, 6: 30, No Alibis Bookstore, on Botanic Avenue
The full programme for our conference is now live, and can be accessed at:

 http://www.qub.ac.uk/research-centres/InstituteforCollaborativeResearchintheHumanities/Filestore/Filetoupload,508569,en.pdf

ICRH Sts

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