Table of Contents

Contents:
Epigraphs
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Giallo and the City
1 Milan, the city of crime
Piero Colaprico and Pietro Valpreda’s ‘Dynamic’ Milan
Andrea G. Pinketts’ Grotesque Milan
Sandrone Dazieri and a Manichean Image of the City
2 Turin, between History and News
Bruno Ventavoli and the ‘Savoy Kasbah’
Piero Soria and the Renewal of Turin’s Pride
3 Naples, the sulphurous city
Siviero’s Naples as the Dystopian City of the Future
4 Palermo, beauty and the Mafia
Piazzese and a Schizophrenic Palermo
Part II: Giallo and urban sprawl
5 Bologna and the Via Emilia
Carlo Lucarelli and a Dilating Bologna
6 Italy’s North-east, the Corroded Engine of Italy
Massimo Carlotto and the Alligator series
Part III: Giallo and the Island
7 Sicily between Old and New
Andrea Camilleri and Vigàta, the Imaginary ‘Island’
8 Sardinia, the Motherland
Marcello Fois and his Contemporary Trilogy
Conclusion
Part IV: Interviews
Bibliography  
Index
About the Author
 

About the Author

Barbara Pezzotti teaches Italian language and culture in various tertiary institutions in New Zealand.

Reviews

[This book] contribute[s] to broadening the interest in the genre [crime fiction] beyond Italian national borders, by presenting to English readers the Italian manifestation of crime fiction. . . .An informative value can . . . be traced in Barbara Pezzotti's The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction: A Bloody Journey. . . .It is time for academic scholasrs to recognize the existence of this rich, broad literary and cultural discourse, developed at the margins or outside university borders, and often on the Web: acknowledging it, and interacting with its interlocutors, seems nowadays a necessity for all those working on contemporary literature.
*Modern Language Journal*