Otherness/Alterity, postcolonialism and Multiculturalism: themes and figures of contemporary crime novel
The course includes a preliminary section dedicated to the study of the forms and types of the detective novel; moreover, a comparative study of texts from various linguistic and literary areas will privilege the analysis of spaces and characters in contemporary multicultural environments.
NOVELS :
O. Durand, La ribellione del manoscritto, L'Asino d'oro ediz.;
D. Chraïbi, L'Inspecteur Ali à Trinity College (tr. it. L’ispettore Alì al Trinity College, Marcos y Marcos);
A. McCall Smith, Tears of the Giraffe (tr.it. Le lacrime della Giraffa, TEA ediz.)
M. Konaté, L'empreinte du renard (tr.it. L'impronta della volpe, Del Vecchio Ed.)
CRITICAL ESSAYS:
G. Bertieri – C. Oliva, I maestri del giallo, ATì Editore, 2013;
S. Calabrese, La suspense, Carocci, 2016;
S. Kracauer , Il romanzo poliziesco ed. SE (Chapters will be defined afterwards);
S. Albertazzi, La letteratura postcoloniale, Carocci (Chapters will be defined afterwards);
Vallorani & S. Bertacco (eds), Postcolonial Crimes: Crime Fiction and the Other, Textus. English Studies in Italy, n. 2 (2014), Carocci (Chapters will be defined afterwards);
M. Ascari-F. Saggini (a cura di), L'investigatore allo specchio: un approccio transdisciplinare al poliziesco, Bologna, Bononia University Press (Chapters will be defined afterwards).
Other bibliographic information and/or changes to the program will be announced by the end of the course.
To consult for more information:
H. Bhabha, The location of Culture, Routledge (trad. it. I luoghi della cultura, Meltemi);
• E. Christian, (ed.) The Post-Colonial Detective, Palgrave- Macmillan;
• A. Gosselin, Multicultural Detective Fiction: Murder from the “Other” Side, Routledge;
• Rivista "Scritture Migranti" n.2 (2008), CLUEB;
• S. Calabrese - M.A. D'Aronco eds., I non luoghi in letteratura, Carocci.
• Giovanni Darcorza, Il detective, il lettore e lo scrittore. Aras Edizioni
• B. Westphal, La cage des méridiens, ed. de Minuit, 2016
• B. Franco, La littérature comparée aujourd'hui, A. Colin, 2016