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Informationen zum Autor Renee W. Craig-Odders is a professor of Spanish at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. The author of several articles and books on Spanish detective fiction, she lives in Plover, Wisconsin. Jacky Collins is a senior lecturer in Spanish Studies at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne. She lives in the United Kingdom. Klappentext This essay collection examines the changing cultural, political and physical landscape of Spain as represented in Spanish crime fiction of the last three decades. The first several essays focus on crime fiction set in Barcelona and look at, among other topics, the symbiotic relationship between the city and the detective in Francisco Gonzalez Ledesma's long-running Inspector Mendez series, Manuel Vazquez Montalban's treatments of the 1992 Summer Olympic Games, and place and identity in Alicia Gimenez-Bartlett's Petra Delicado series. Other essays examine regional and cultural illiteracy in Jorge Martinez Reverte's Galvez series and Spain's changing urban centers as represented in Andreu Martin's El blues de la semana mas negra. Zusammenfassung Examines the changing cultural! political and physical landscape of Spain as represented in Spanish crime fiction. This work examines regional and cultural illiteracy in Jorge Martinez Reverte's ""Galvez"" series and Spain's changing urban centers as represented in Andreu Martin's ""El blues de la semana mas negra"". Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsIntroductionRenée W. Craig-Odders 1. Detecting 1979 Barcelona: The Cases versus the Context in El misterio de la cripta embrujada, Los mares del Sur, and A la vejez navajazosKalen R. Oswald 2. Barcelona: "La gran novela negra" in Francisco González Ledesma's Inspector Méndez SeriesRenée W. Craig-Odders 3. Barcelona Through the Tourist's Gaze: The 1992 Olympics as a Pseudo-Event in Two Novels by Manuel Vázquez MontalbánMichelle Dumais 4. There's No Place Like Homelessness in Alicia Giménez Bartlett's Un barco cargado de arrozNina L. Molinaro 5. After Eden: Images of the Garden in Alicia Giménez-Bartlett's Petra Delicado SeriesMarcie Paul 6. "This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us (?)": Regional and Social Tensions in Two Novels by Lola van Guardia/Isabel FrancJacky Collins 7. Spanish Crime Fiction and Madrid: Moving Up, Looking BackDavid Knutson 8. Remembering Madrid in the Fiction of Joaquín Leguina and Arturo Pérez-ReverteAnne L. Walsh 9. Urban Renewal and Mobbing Inmobilario in Andreu Martín's El blues de la semana más negraTiffany Gagliardi Trotman 10. The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Regional and Cultural Illiteracy in Two of Jorge Martínez Reverte's Gálvez Series NovelsJeffrey Oxford 11. Woman on the Road: A New Look at Bilbao's Urban Landscape in Itxaro Borda's Ezpeldoi SeriesJavier Cillero Goiriastuena About the Contributors Index ...
