Regional crime fiction

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Abstract

This chapter examines the problem of the region in world crime fiction – the extent to which a regional approach to crime fiction offers a way of moving between the national and global. It focusses on the Mediterranean and what is called Mediterranean or Southern European noir and examines works by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Jean-Claude Izzo, Andrea Camilleri and, more pointedly, the Mexican writers Subcomandante Marcos and Paco Ignacio Taibo II. It seeks to tease out the complications produced, first, by attempts to locate what is distinctively Mediterranean in Mediterranean noir, and second, by attendant moves to distinguish between different taxonomies of geographical and political space. Attention is paid to the fusion of cultures central to and produced by an understanding of the Mediterranean as matrix and to the ways this cultural mixing has also been exploited by organized crime networks for profit. However, to fully interrogate the place and problem of the region in world crime fiction, and to tease out its political possibilities, this chapter looks at the complex entanglements between texts, readers, publishers and contexts, and hence new ways of doing critique.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Cambridge companion to world crime fiction
EditorsJesper Gulddal, Stewart King, Alistair Rolls
Place of PublicationCambridge
PublisherCambridge University Press
Chapter5
Pages82-99
ISBN (Electronic)9781108614344
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01 Apr 2022

Publication series

NameCambridge Companion
PublisherCambridge University Press

Keywords

  • Regional crime fiction, Mediterranean noir, Izzo, Carlotto

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