Home is Where the Heart Is : Moving to the Netherlands in Post-War British Crime Fiction

ŽÁRSKÁ, Lenka. Home is Where the Heart Is : Moving to the Netherlands in Post-War British Crime Fiction. In Homing In : 14th International Conference of the Association for Low Countries Studies, 10 July-12 July 2022, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. 2022.

Basic information

• Original name: Home is Where the Heart Is : Moving to the Netherlands in Post-War British Crime Fiction
• Authors: ŽÁRSKÁ, Lenka.
• Edition: Homing In : 14th International Conference of the Association for Low Countries Studies, 10 July-12 July 2022, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2022.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Presentations at conferences
• Field of Study: 60206 Specific literatures
• Country of publisher: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Keywords in English: british literature; crime fiction; imagology; netherlands; dutch
• Tags: Reviewed

Abstract

In my contribution, I have focused on the topics of immigration and finding home in British post-war crime fiction and compared the portrayal of these issues in two series, Nicolas Freeling’s Inspector Van der Valk series published predominantly between 1962 and 1972, and David Hewson’s Detective Pieter Vos series, which appeared between 2014 and 2017. I then argued that while both the series comment on the topic of immigration and home and even criticise the attitude of the Dutch towards newcomers, Freeling’s series does so only on small and often individual basis, while Hewson’s novels introduce the topic as both a personal matter, and a systematic issue anchored in the Dutch (and Western) society.

Links

• MUNI/A/1478/2021, interní kód MU: Name: Paradigms, strategies and developments - Anglophone literary and cultural studies II

Investor: Masaryk University