[Commlist] CFA: The Palgrave Handbook of European Crime Narratives

Call for abstracts

*The Palgrave Handbook of European Crime Narratives*

Editors: Cathrin Bengesser, Pia Majbritt Jensen and Kim Toft Hansen

Although a widely popular genre for over a century, crime narratives are 
experiencing an unprecedented popularity all across Europe and across 
different media at the moment. In literature, film and television, crime 
and violence are a central source of inspiration for narratives about 
national/regional societies and cultures as well as inspiration for 
stories and creative processes that transcend the borders between 
countries and media. More than any other narrative genre, the crime 
genre has proven able to travel across the European continent and 
beyond, becoming a vehicle for cultural exchange and debate.

Besides evoking transborder cultural exchange, crime narratives are 
today a strategic means in European place-branding on local, national, 
regional and transnational levels of communication. As a result, the 
generic concept “noir” now resonates among producers, distributors and 
audiences of crime fiction, and increasingly EURONOIR narratives have 
been located in recognizable places and regions across Europe, resulting 
in e.g. Mediterranean, Tartan, Catalan, Nordic Noir.

This *Handbook* will cover this vast field of crime narratives in film, 
literature and television, including cross-media narratives such as 
adaptations. The volume seeks to extend the knowledge of European crime 
narratives and, at the same time, introduce and revise contemporary 
theoretical assumptions about and methodological approaches to crime 
narratives. The overall concept of the book is to explicate the 
researchers’ theoretical and methodological perspectives on crime 
narratives and to exemplify these approaches with an original analysis. 
Objects of research can be contemporary or reaching back historically.

For the volume, we seek contributions for *four sections *on crime 
narratives: 1) literary crime fiction, 2) crime films, 3) television 
crime narratives, 4) trans-/cross-mediated crime narratives.

Within these four sections we will include an equal amount of chapters 
within the following *five organizational principles*: a) 
production/distribution/audience/content, b) a wide European 
geographical coverage, c) different theoretical and methodological 
background, d) historical and contemporary cases, and e) especially how 
the chapter’s case study engages in *overall European perspectives*.

When sending in abstracts, please accentuate how your chapter fits into 
the sections of the book (1-4) and the organization principles (a-e). 
Please, include an 300 word abstract and a 150 word bio. Send your 
abstracts to (cbengesser /at/ cc.au.dk) <mailto:(cbengesser /at/ cc.au.dk)>, 
(piamj /at/ cc.au.dk) <mailto:(piamj /at/ cc.au.dk)>and (kimtoft /at/ cgs.aau.dk) 
<mailto:(kimtoft /at/ cgs.aau.dk)>no later than *15 November 2019*. We expect 
publication in early 2021.

At the moment, we are negotiating with Palgrave Macmillan and the final 
volume proposal will include a general introduction to the edited volume 
as well as the approved abstracts. The handbook will consist of around 
25 contributions.

The volume is part of research conducted within the H2020-funded 
research project DETECt (Detecting Transcultural Identity in European 
Popular Crime Narratives) (2018-21). Please, visit the following website 
for more information: http://www.detect-project.eu/.

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