Barbara Pezzotti

Mediterranean Crime Fiction

Transcultural Narratives in and Around the 'Great Sea'

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9781009451475
• ISBN-10: 1009451472
• Artikelnr.: 68540361

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.