Mediterranean crime fiction : transcultural narratives in and around the 'Great Sea' / Barbara Pezzotti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pezzotti, Barbara, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Detective and mystery stories--European authors--History and criticism.

Detective and mystery stories.

Detective and mystery stories, African--History and criticism.

Detective and mystery stories, African.

Mediterranean Region--In literature.

Mediterranean Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 230 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Contributing to the growing debate around the definition of Mediterranean noir, Barbara Pezzotti's groundbreaking study is the first in English to propose a rigorous classification of Mediterranean crime fiction. Intersecting crime fiction studies and Mediterranean studies, this interdisciplinary book provides a coherent and stringent definition in which the Mediterranean setting is not in the background, but is a meaningful arena where transnational space, globalisation and environmental issues are discussed; questions of regional, national and transcultural identity are investigated; and the themes of gender and violence are tackled. Pezzotti offers new ways of reading established crime novelists, such as Andrea Camilleri, Jean-Claude Izzo and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, alongside less well-known writers. To date, no other book-length study has taken a transnational and transcultural approach to these authors, and here Pezzotti invites us to consider the wider Mediterranean dimensions of their crime narratives, beyond their national contexts.

Contents:

The Mediterranean detective

A place in the sun?

Food for thought in Mediterranean crime fiction

Crime fiction and the past : a Mediterranean desencanto

Identity in Mediterranean crime fiction

Male gaze and gender violence in the Mediterranean crime novel.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Nov 2023).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781009451437 (ebook)

Access Restriction:

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