This is the first book to focus explicitly on the semiotics of food
in crime fiction. Tackling the subject from a multicultural and
interdisciplinary perspective, it includes approaches from cultural
studies, food studies, media studies and crime fiction studies.
Thus the present collection investigates how the representation of
food's convivial aspects and of eating rituals can also point to
complex discourses about cultural belonging, regional, and national
and supranational identities. The chapters cover a range of issues,
such as the provision of intra-, per- or paratextual recipes, the
aesthetics and ethics of food, and its place in true crime writing
as well as in crime fiction proper. They also survey eating
disorders and eating habits as a mark of "otherness," the use of
food as an indicator of personal and national identity, or as an
indicator of syncretism and hybridity. The collection offers
readings, across a range of media, of twentieth- and
twenty-first-century crime fiction from Australia, Cuba, Denmark,
France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Sweden, the UK, and the US. Authors
studied include Anthony Bourdain, Arthur Upfield, Sara Paretsky,
Andrea Camilleri, Fred Vargas, Ruth Rendell, Stieg Larsson,
Leonardo Padura, Georges Simenon, Paco Ignacio Talbo II, and Donna
Leon. Television productions analyzed here include the Inspector
Montalbano series (1999-ongoing), the Danish-Swedish Bron/Broen
(2011[The Bridge]), and its remakes The Tunnel (2013, France/UK)
and The Bridge (2013, USA).
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