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Full Description
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
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.
