CFP
Domestic Noir

CALL FOR CHAPTERS
‘From the Domestic to the Dominant: The New Face of Crime Fiction’
Edited Collection
Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn), The Silent Wife (ASA Harrison), The Girl on the Train (Paula Hawkins), are just three recent novels that have captured the commercial imagination and conceivably shifted the critical perception of what a contemporary crime thriller is and should be doing in the second decade of the 21st Century. The terrain is domestic, the narrative perspective and criminal perpetrator firmly female. However, the political is of course ever present in relation to gender and society. The crime thriller has always been a peculiarly modern form. Its transition to an urgent, necessary and contemporary form of literary expression is arguable, and lies at the core of the discussion within this collection.
Julia Crouch (Cuckoo, The Long Fall, Tarnished and Every Vow You Break) recognised as the originator of the term ‘Domestic Noir’ stated that it ‘takes place primarily in homes and workplaces, concerns itself largely (but not exclusively) with the female experience.’
Domestic Noir is often concerned with crimes of an extremely intimate nature. Renee Knight’s Disclaimer and Claire Kendal’s The Book of You, both deal with unusually invasive forms of stalking. Christobel Kent’s The Crooked House and Erin Kelly’s The Poison Tree both detail the horror of long-buried secrets surfacing. Many of the novels deal explicitly with what Rebecca Whitney (The Liar’s Chair) describes as ‘toxic marriage and its fallout’, such as Emma Chapman’s How to be a Good Wife, and Lucie Whitehouse’s Before we Met. There are also versions of the marriage thriller that present economically or sexually independent women transgressing, such as Louise Doughty’s Apple Tree Yard and Jill Alexander Essbaum’s Hausfrau. Continue reading
Gender, Crime and Media

Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine in Contemporary Women’s Writing
Call for Contributions : Bonnie & Clyde
Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot, Bonnie & Clyde (1968)
The editor of a new Critical Insights FILM volume on Arthur Penn’s 1967 film, Bonnie and Clyde, seeks contributors to write chapters on any topic on the film. Continue reading
American, British and Canadian Studies Special Issue: Contemporary Crime Fiction
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: AMERICAN, BRITISH AND CANADIAN STUDIES SPECIAL ISSUE: CONTEMPORARY CRIME FICTION
(Information provided by Dr Charlotte Beyer)
American, British and Canadian Studies, the Journal of the Academic Anglophone Society of Romania, invites submissions for a special 2017 issue on Contemporary Crime Fiction, guest edited by Dr Charlotte Beyer. Continue reading
Call for Contributions: Crime Fiction and Food
CFP:Postcolonial and Transnational Crime Fiction
Call for Papers
The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies (published by Routledge from 2016)
Special Issue – Postcolonial and Transnational Crime Fiction
Since the nineteenth century crime fiction has provided a space for authors to comment on colonial relations, the iniquities of colonialism, and the aberrations of colonial systems of law enforcement and justice. The complex legacy of colonialism in contemporary times continues to be explored in transnational crime fiction. This special issue aims to showcase the latest scholarship on postcolonial and transnational crime fiction in which the following questions are raised and answered:
- How has the genre of crime fiction, and its many sub-genres, been adapted, transformed, re-imagined and subverted by postcolonial and transnational crime fiction texts?
- How does postcolonial and transnational crime fiction investigate colonial and neo-colonial power dynamics, structures of authority, notions of justice and law enforcement?
- What specific cultural and socio-political contexts are examined in…
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