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Mediterranean crime fiction : transcultural narratives in and around the 'Great Sea' /

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Barbara Pezzotti offers new ways of reading established crime novelists, such as Andrea Camilleri, Jean-Claude Izzo and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, and less well-known writers, such as Yasmina Khadra and Batya Gur. By exploring the transcultural nature of Mediterranean crime fiction, this study advoca...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pezzotti, Barbara (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2024].
Subjects:
Detective and mystery stories > European authors > History and criticism.
Detective and mystery stories, African > History and criticism.
Mediterranean Region > In literature.
Table of Contents:
  • The Mediterranean detective
  • A place in the sun?
  • Food for thought in Mediterranean crime fiction
  • Crime fiction and the past : a Mediterranean desencanto
  • Identity in Mediterranean crime fiction
  • Male gaze and gender violence in the Mediterranean crime novel.