Differences, Deceits, and Desires : Murder and Mayhem in Italian Crime Fiction

by Cicioni, Mirna; Ciolla, Nicoletta Di

• ISBN13: 9780874130515
• ISBN10: 0874130514
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-30
• Publisher: Associated Univ Pr

Summary

"Italian crime fiction (known as gialli in Italy) has developed from a popular genre to a fully-fledged literary genre; and in the past thirty years it has gradually become the focus of growing interest from literary critics as well as the reading public." "This collection of twelve essays is the first one in English to deal exclusively with Italian crime fiction. The essays are scholarly yet accessible contributions to the growing research in this field. The analyze texts by well-known authors (such as Umberto Eco, Leonardo Sciascia and Andrea Camilleri) as well as works by younger writers. They bring together four of the most significant strands of Italian gialli: the way gialli develop or subvert the tradition and conventions of the crime genre; regional specificity within Italian crime fiction; gialli by and about women, lesbians and gay men; and representations of Italy in gialli written by English-speaking writers."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Subgenres, Traditions and Ideologies
On the Margins: Antonio Tabucchi's Investigative Reflections	p. 13
Arsene Lupin meets Sam Spade and Phil Marlowe: Citations from the Tradition of the Detective Novel in the Works of Umberto Eco	p. 27
Tornatore's Una pura formalita: A Supernatural Subversion of Detective Narratives	p. 49
Murder in Sicily: Commissario Montalbano Talks About His Author's Literary Traditions	p. 67
Regional Specificity
La donna della domenica and the Italian Detective Novel of the 1970s	p. 83
Il giorno della civetta to Il cavaliere e la morte: Continuity and Change in the Detective Fiction of Leonardo Sciascia	p. 99
Murder and Mayhem around the Via Emilia	p. 115
Gendered and Queer Perspectives
From Novel to Film: Re-instating Patriarchal Order to Dacia Maraini's Voci	p. 133
Loyalties and Lesbianism in the Novels of Fiorella Cagnoni	p. 145
Reconfiguring the Family, Incorporating Diversity and Making the Imagined Real: Gianni Farinetti's Use of the Noir as a Transformative Genre	p. 161
A Country with a View: Representations of Italy for English-Speaking Readers
Now and Zen: Anglophone Representations of Italy in Early Modern Revenge Tragedy and Michael Dibdin's Aurelio Zen Novels	p. 177
Learning Italian: Serial Killers Abroad in the Novels of Highsmith and Harris	p. 191
Bibliography	p. 207
Contributors	p. 226
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