La dialéctica histórico-espacial en la escritura subnormal de Manuel Vázquez Montalbán y el nuevo urbanismo de Henri Lefebvre

Afinoguénova, Eugenia

doi:10.1353/hcs.2007.0001

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“…11 The setting of the novel shifts therefore from urban slums to rich bourgeois neighborhoods, in a perpetually changing city which evolves from a 1970s town to one of the richest metropolises in the Mediterranean. Barcelona becomes indeed the stage of an intense cultural ferment and nightlife, reclaiming its role as an economic hub and developing instances of cultural and political independence from Madrid, to which Montalbán spares no fierce criticism (Afinoguénova, 2006). Unsurprisingly, Carvalho will leave Barcelona to go on his odyssey around the world only in the last two books, finding death (Montalbán, 2004).…”

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Place matters: geographical context, place belonging and the production of locality in Mediterranean Noirs

Gabellieri

2021

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Scholars have been investigating detective stories and crime fiction mostly as literary works reflecting the societies that produced them and the movement from modernism to postmodernism. However, these genres have generally been neglected by literary geographers. In the attempt to fill such an epistemological vacuum, this paper examines and compare the function and importance of geography in both classic and late 20th century detective stories. Arthur Conan Doyle’s and Agatha Christie’s detective stories are compared to Mediterranean noir books by Manuel Montalbán, Andrea Camilleri and Jean Claude Izzo. While space is shown to be at the center of the investigations in the former two authors, the latter rather focus on place, that is space invested by the authors with meaning and feelings of identity and belonging. From this perspective, the article argues that detective investigations have become a narrative medium allowing the readership to explore the writer’s representation/construction of his own territorial context, or place-setting, which functions as a co-protagonist of the novel. In conclusion, the paper suggests that the emerging role of place in some of the later popular crime fiction can be interpreted as the result of writer’s sentiment of belonging and, according to Appadurai’s theory, as a literary and geographical discourse aimed at the production of locality.

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Section: Montalbán and Carvalho's Barcelonamentioning

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Place matters: geographical context, place belonging and the production of locality in Mediterranean Noirs

Gabellieri

2021

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La dialéctica histórico-espacial en la escritura subnormal de Manuel Vázquez Montalbán y el nuevo urbanismo de Henri Lefebvre

Cited by 1 publication

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Place matters: geographical context, place belonging and the production of locality in Mediterranean Noirs

Place matters: geographical context, place belonging and the production of locality in Mediterranean Noirs

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