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a bloody journey

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The importance of place in Italian crime fiction

a bloody journey

By taking as its point of departure the privileged relationship between the crime novel and its setting, this book is the most wide-ranging examination of the way in which Italian detective fiction in the last 20 years has become a means to articulate the changes in the social landscape of the country. Through the analysis of the way in which cities, the ‘urban sprawl’, and islands are represented in the serial novels of 11 of the most important contemporary crime writers in Italy of the 1990s, this book articulates the different ways in which individual authors appropriate the structures and tropes of the genre to reflect the social transformations and dysfunctions of contemporary Italy. In so doing, this volume also makes a case for the genre as an instrument of social critique and analysis of a still elusive Italian national identity, thus bringing further evidence in support of the thesis that in Italy detective fiction has come to play the role of the new ‘social novel’.

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Language
English
Pages
213

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The importance of place in Italian crime fiction: a bloody journey
2012, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction
Giallo and the city. Milan, the city of crime
Turin, between history and news
Naples, the sulphurous city
Palermo, beauty and the Mafia
Giallo and urban sprawl. Sicily between old and new
Sardinia, the motherland
Interviews.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Madison

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
853/.08720935845
Library of Congress
PQ4181.D4 P49 2012, PQ4181.D4P49 2012

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
213

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25340226M
ISBN 13
9781611475524, 9781611475531
LCCN
2012021670
OCLC/WorldCat
794363249

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