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

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.

Author: Barbara Pezzotti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 11/23/2023
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9781009451475
ISBN10: 1009451472
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | European | General