Murder in the Multinational State

Crime Fiction from Spain
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-032-09234-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

Reihe: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

As Spaniards set out to transform the political, social and cultural landscape of the nation following the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, its crime fiction traces, challenges and celebrates these radical changes. Crime Fiction from Spain: Murder in the Multinational State provides a comprehensive exploration of the relationship between detective fiction and national and cultural identities in post-Franco democratic Spain. What sort of stories are told about the nation within the state in the crime genre? How do the conventions of the crime story shape not only the production of national and cultural identities, but also their disruption? Combining criminological theories of crime and community with an analysis of the genre’s conventions, this study challenges the simple classification of Spanish crime fiction as texts written by Spaniards, set in Spain and with Spanish characters. Instead, it develops a dramatic new reading practice which allows for a greater understanding of the role of crime fiction in the construction and articulation of different and, at times, competing, national and cultural identities, including in the Basque Country, Catalonia and Galicia. The book provides a stimulating introduction to the key debates on the study of crime fiction and national and cultural identities in the context of a multinational state.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

King, Stewart

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Spanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Portugiesische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: A Confession of Sorts

Introduction: Constructing Communities in Crime Fiction: The Case of Spain

Chapter 1: Nations and their Margins: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán’s Carvalho Series

Chapter 2: Criminal Records and Democratic Futures: Investigating the Spanish Civil War and Franco Dictatorship

Chapter 3: The Language of Detection in Catalan Crime Fiction

Chapter 4: The Consequences of Crime: Victims in the Basque Thriller

Chapter 5: The Usual Suspects: Investigating Stereotypes and Modernity in the Galician Crime Novel

Chapter 6: Contemporary Police Fiction: The Return of Centralised Authority

Conclusion: Interrogating Identities in the Multinational, Multicultural State and Beyond

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stewart King is Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies and coordinates the International Literatures program at Monash University, Australia. He completed a PhD in Spanish and Catalan Studies at La Trobe University. He is the author of Escribir la catalanidad (Tamesis, 2005) and has edited or co-edited several collections, including The Space of Culture: Critical Readings in Hispanic Studies (University of Delaware Press, 2004) and "The Future of Memory in Spain" (Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 2017). He is currently co-editing The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction.