The present volume is the first study in the English language to focus specifically on Italian crime fiction, weaving together a historical perspective and a thematic approach, with a particular focus on the representation of space, especially city...
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The present volume is the first study in the English language to focus specifically on Italian crime fiction, weaving together a historical perspective and a thematic approach, with a particular focus on the representation of space, especially city space, gender, and the tradition of impegno, the social and political engagement which characterised the Italian cultural and literary scene in the postwar period. The 8 chapters in this volume explore the distinctive features of the Italian tradition from the 1930s to the present, by focusing on a wide range of detective and crime novels by selecte
Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Introduction; The Emergence of a New Literary Genre in Interwar Italy; Founding Fathers: Giorgio Scerbanenco; Literature and the Giallo: Gadda, Eco, Tabucchi and Sciascia; The Mysteries of Bologna: On Some Trends of the ContemporaryGiallo; Crime and the South; Italian Women Crime Writers; Milano nera: Representing and Imagining Milan in Italian Noirand Crime Fiction; Annotated Bibliography; Index
