Sagaster, Boerte

Crime Fiction in and around the Eastern Mediterranean

For a long time, crime fiction has been considered popular literature – an assessment that prevented serious critical engagement with it. It is only in recent years that critical literary theories have begun to be applied to genres such as crime fiction, while at the same time the interest of literary scholars in crime fiction by authors not belonging to the European-American ‘Western’ cultures has grown.

• Sagaster, Boerte
• 2016-01-28