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Guldimann proposes that Abdelilah Hamdouchi’s Whitefly (2016) is a pioneering example of the international crime novel’s capacity to reflect critically on the processes of globalisation, the transnationalisation of crime and policing networks. She suggests that the novel’s innovation lies in its combination of two genres that emerged in Morocco in the late 1990s following the end of the repressive “years of lead”: the Arabic police novel and the novel of illegal immigration. Set in the strategic city of Tangier within the Strait of Gibraltar, the novel investigates the space that connects Africa and Europe. By placing illegal immigration at the centre of a police investigation, Hamdouchi questions national borders, the mobility of people and deterritorialised crime within the context of neoliberal capitalism.
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Guldimann, C. (2020). Abdelilah Hamdouchi’s Whitefly: Transnational Crime, Globalisation and the Arabic Police Procedural. 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_4
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