Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction

A Bloody Journey

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

AvBarbara Pezzotti

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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 twenty years has become a means to articulate the changes in the social landscape of the country. Nowadays there is a general acknowledgment of the importance of place in Italian crime novels. However, apart from a limited scholarship on single cities, the genre has never been systematically studied in a way that so comprehensively spans Italian national boundaries. The originality of this volume also lies in the fact that the author have not limited her investigation to a series of cities, but rather she has considered the different forms of (social) landscape in which Italian crime novels are set. Through the analysis of the way in which cities, the "urban sprawl," and islands are represented in the serial novels of eleven of the most important contemporary crime writers in Italy of the 1990s, Pezzotti 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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Utgivningsdatum2012-09-20
Mått157 x 237 x 21 mm
Vikt476 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor222
FörlagAssociated University Presses
ISBN9781611475524

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Contents: EpigraphsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Giallo and the City 1 Milan, the city of crimePiero Colaprico and Pietro Valpreda’s ‘Dynamic’ MilanAndrea G. Pinketts’ Grotesque MilanSandrone Dazieri and a Manichean Image of the City2 Turin, between History and NewsBruno Ventavoli and the ‘Savoy Kasbah’Piero Soria and the Renewal of Turin’s Pride3 Naples, the sulphurous citySiviero’s Naples as the Dystopian City of the Future4 Palermo, beauty and the MafiaPiazzese and a Schizophrenic PalermoPart II: Giallo and urban sprawl5 Bologna and the Via EmiliaCarlo Lucarelli and a Dilating Bologna6 Italy’s North-east, the Corroded Engine of ItalyMassimo Carlotto and the Alligator seriesPart III: Giallo and the Island7 Sicily between Old and NewAndrea Camilleri and Vigàta, the Imaginary ‘Island’8 Sardinia, the MotherlandMarcello Fois and his Contemporary TrilogyConclusion Part IV: InterviewsBibliography Index About the Author

[This book] contribute[s] to broadening the interest in the genre [crime fiction] beyond Italian national borders, by presenting to English readers the Italian manifestation of crime fiction. . . .An informative value can . . . be traced in Barbara Pezzotti's The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction: A Bloody Journey. . . .It is time for academic scholasrs to recognize the existence of this rich, broad literary and cultural discourse, developed at the margins or outside university borders, and often on the Web: acknowledging it, and interacting with its interlocutors, seems nowadays a necessity for all those working on contemporary literature.