Mediterranean Crime Fiction

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-009-45147-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 490 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pezzotti, Barbara

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Mediterranean detective; 2. A place in the sun?; 3. Food for thought in Mediterranean crime fiction; 4. Crime fiction and the past: a Mediterranean Desencanto; 5. Identity in Mediterranean crime fiction; 6. Male gaze and gender violence in the Mediterranean crime novel; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Pezzotti, Barbara
Barbara Pezzotti teaches Italian and European cultures at Monash University, Australia. She is the author of The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction: A Bloody Journey (2012); Politics and Society in Italian Crime Fiction: An Historical Overview (2014); and Investigating Italy's Past through Crime Fiction, Films and TV Series: Murder in the Age of Chaos (2016).