Mediterranean Crime Fiction - Transcultural Narratives in and Around the Great Sea''

"Barbara Pezzotti offers new ways of reading established crime novelists, such as Andrea Camilleri, Jean-Claude Izzo and Manuel Vâazquez Montalbâan, and less well-known writers, such as Yasmina Khadra and Batya Gur. By exploring the transcultural nature of Mediterranean crime fiction, this study advocates for a regional 'reading' of the genre"--

List of contents

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.

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Pezzotti, Barbara (Monash University Pezzotti, Pezzotti Barbara
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.11.2023
• EAN: 9781009451475
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0945147-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Popular Culture, Crime & mystery, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, Mediterranean Sea, c 2000 to c 2009, Gender studies, gender groups, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, c 1990 to c 1999, c 1980 to c 1989