UID:
almahu_9949384412702882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781000021479
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1000021475
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9781000021851
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1000021858
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9781000021660
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1000021661
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9780429295812
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0429295812
Series Statement:
New hispanisms : cultural and literary studies
Content:
"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. Murder in the Multinational State: Crime Fiction from Spain 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"--
Note:
Preface : a confession of sorts -- Introduction : constructing communities in crime fiction : the case of Spain -- Nations and their margins : Manuel Vázquez Montalbán's Carvalho series -- Criminal records and democratic futures : investigating the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship -- The language of detection in Catalan crime fiction -- The consequences of crime : victims in the Basque thriller -- The usual suspects : investigating stereotypes and modernity in the Galician crime novel -- Contemporary police fiction : the return of centralised authority -- Conclusion : interrogating identities in the multinational, multicultural state and beyond.
Additional Edition:
Print version: King, Stewart, 1968- Murder in the multinational state. New York, NY : Routledge, 2019 ISBN 9780367272562
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
DOI:
10.4324/9780429295812
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429295812
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