A "bloody" journey along the Italian peninsula through yellow. Starting from the privileged relationship that the detective novel has with places, "The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction: A Bloody Journey” has the merit of comprehensively analyzing the way in which the Italian thriller has become a particularly effective vehicle for investigating Italian society in the last twenty years. The book, divided into three parts, explores the representation of the main crime cities - Milan, Turin, Naples and Palermo - and the related problems of violence and urban marginalization, through the yellow series of the most important Italian authors of the 90s.
In the second part, the volume analyzes two areas, Bologna and the Via Emilia and the North-East, which due to their vastness and uniformity have been assimilated to American urban sprawl and which often decline the negative effects of savage capitalism. Finally, the third part deals with yellow in Sicily and Sardinia, places where the traditional mystery of the "locked room" becomes the reason for an investigation into regional and national identity.
Among the authors analyzed in the volume are some of the best-known mystery writers of the last twenty years, including Andrea G. Pinketts, Massimo Carlotto, Carlo Lucarelli, Santo Piazzese, Andrea Camilleri and Marcello Fois.
Through the analysis of eleven mystery series, this volume articulates the different ways in which the authors have used the structures and themes of the investigative novel to reflect on the political and social transformations of contemporary Italy. In this way, The Importance of place presents yellow as a tool for social criticism and analysis of a still elusive national identity 150 years after the unification of the country.
Title: “The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction: A Bloody Journey”
Author: Barbara Pezzotti
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Year: 2012
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