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  1. Murder in the multinational state
    crime fiction from Spain
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY

    "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... more

    Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg
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    "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"--

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781000021479; 1000021475; 9781000021851; 1000021858; 9781000021660; 1000021661; 9780429295812; 0429295812
    RVK Categories: IP 2580 ; IP 1840
    Series: New hispanisms : cultural and literary studies
    Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, Spanish / History and criticism; Spanish fiction / History and criticism; Kulturelle Identität <Motiv>; Nationalbewusstsein <Motiv>; Kriminalliteratur
    Scope: 1 online resource
  2. Murder in the multinational state
    crime fiction from Spain
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Routledge,, New York, NY

    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... more

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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
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    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.

     

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  3. Murder in the multinational state
    crime fiction from Spain
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "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... more

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    TU Darmstadt, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek - Stadtmitte
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    "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"--...

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781000021479; 1000021475; 9781000021851; 1000021858; 9781000021660; 1000021661; 9780429295812; 0429295812
    Series: New hispanisms : cultural and literary studies
    Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, Spanish; Spanish fiction; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
  4. Murder in the multinational state
    crime fiction from Spain
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Routledge,, New York, NY

    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... more

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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    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.

     

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