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Hynynen argues that Olivier Truc’s Reindeer Police trilogy challenges set notions of national, cultural and ethnic authenticity and national genre traditions. She explores mobility, borders and border crossings in the trilogy from three perspectives: she highlights the novels’ transnational nature, analyses how the trilogy depicts spatial mobility and focuses on how social and ethnic mobility become manifest through the novels’ detectives. The author’s personal trajectory and the novels’ place of publication are placed in relation to the novels’ setting, original language and social commentary, which evidences the transnational nature of the novels. Hynynen’s analysis of geographical border crossing shows that they constitute a prime characteristic of the trilogy, whereas the main characters’ contrasting life stories illustrate border crossing from a cultural identity and ethnicity perspective.
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Hynynen, A. (2020). Across National, Cultural and Ethnic Borders: The Detectives in Olivier Truc’s Reindeer Police Series. In: Piipponen, M., Mäntymäki, H., Rodi-Risberg, M. (eds) Transnational Crime Fiction. Crime Files. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53413-4_12
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