1st Edition
Murder in the Multinational State Crime Fiction from Spain
Preface: A Confession of Sorts
Introduction: Constructing Communities in Crime Fiction: The Case of Spain
Chapter 1: Nations and their Margins: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán’s Carvalho Series
Chapter 2: Criminal Records and Democratic Futures: Investigating the Spanish Civil War and Franco Dictatorship
Chapter 3: The Language of Detection in Catalan Crime Fiction
Chapter 4: The Consequences of Crime: Victims in the Basque Thriller
Chapter 5: The Usual Suspects: Investigating Stereotypes and Modernity in the Galician Crime Novel
Chapter 6: Contemporary Police Fiction: The Return of Centralised Authority
Conclusion: Interrogating Identities in the Multinational, Multicultural State and Beyond
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Stewart King is Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies and coordinates the International Literatures program at Monash University, Australia. He completed a PhD in Spanish and Catalan Studies at La Trobe University. He is the author of Escribir la catalanidad (Tamesis, 2005) and has edited or co-edited several collections, including The Space of Culture: Critical Readings in Hispanic Studies (University of Delaware Press, 2004) and "The Future of Memory in Spain" (Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 2017). He is currently co-editing The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction.
