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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2023

Barbara Pezzotti
Affiliation:
Monash University, Victoria
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The Introduction positions this book as part of the new critical move to map and interrogate crime fiction’s transnationality. The main point is to combine a sustained focus on individual texts and their particular local and national contexts with a broader, comparative approach that explores the ways in which the translation, circulation and reception of crime fiction within the Mediterranean basin produces a more complex portrait of the genre than would be possible if one just focused on national crime fictions as discrete entities. This chapter argues that by considering southern European, northern African and eastern Mediterranean crime fiction as part of a common tradition, and more importantly giving each component equal significance, this book contributes to the debate about the Western and Eurocentric dimension of world literature. This introduction also argues that, for the relatively limited dimension of the region as opposed to the global, a regional approach is able to give close attention to particular languages and specific texts, while at the same time providing ‘peripheral literature’ with more critical mass and cultural power.

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Mediterranean Crime Fiction
Transcultural Narratives in and around the ‘Great Sea'
, pp. 1 - 27
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Introduction
  • Barbara Pezzotti, Monash University, Victoria
  • Book: Mediterranean Crime Fiction
  • Online publication: 09 November 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009451437.001
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  • Introduction
  • Barbara Pezzotti, Monash University, Victoria
  • Book: Mediterranean Crime Fiction
  • Online publication: 09 November 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009451437.001
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  • Introduction
  • Barbara Pezzotti, Monash University, Victoria
  • Book: Mediterranean Crime Fiction
  • Online publication: 09 November 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009451437.001
Available formats
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