Mediterranean Crime Fiction

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 Vzquez Montalbn 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.