Heterotopic and Striated Spaces in the Mediterranean Crime Fiction of Amara Lakhous and Jean-Claude Izzo

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I: Memories and Identities
5. Tales of the Adriatic 19
6. Interconnected Histories and Construction of Collective Memory: Theoretical Approaches to the Perception of the Mediterranean Sea as a Palimpsestic noeud de mémoire in French and Italian Literature 33
7. A story of two Shores: Transnational Memory and Ottoman Legacy in Modern Greek Novels 47
8. The Literary Construction of Mediterranean Identity: Memory and Myth in Maria Corti 65
9. Elusive Mediterraneans. Reading Beyond Nation 85
10. The Forger as an Ambivalent Muse: Leonardo Sciascia’s Novel Il Consiglio d’Egitto and the Mediterranean Memory of Sicily 103
11. Part II: Social and Linguistic Spaces
12. Latin-Arabic Literary Entanglement and the Concept of “Mediterranean Literature” 123
13. Mapping the Mediterranean with Language: Matvejević’s Mediterranean Breviary 145
14. Territory / Frontiers / Routes: Space, Place and Language in the Mediterranean 159
15. Part III: Fictional Spaces
16. “Avendo di servidori bisogno”: Decameron 5.7 and the Medieval Mediterranean Slave Trade 175
17. For a Geo-Philology of the Sea. Writing Cartography, Mapping the Mediterranean Mare Historiarum, from Dante to Renaissance Islands Books 193
18. Concepts of Mediterranean Islandness from Ancient to Early Modern Times: A Philological Approach 229
19. Marseille and the Mediterranean in the Writings of Yoko Tawada and Tahar Ben Jelloun 249
20. Heterotopic and Striated Spaces in the Mediterranean Crime Fiction of Amara Lakhous and Jean-Claude Izzo 261
21. Part IV: Conceptional Spaces
22. A Mediterranean Utopia. The Renaissance Fiction of Plusiapolis as an Ideal of Mediterranean Connectivity 283
23. The pensée de midi Revisited: Mediterranean Connectivity Between Paul Arène, Albert Camus, and Louis Brauquier 299
24. The Possibility of the Mediterranean and the Contribution of Poetic Cross-Cultural Philologies During the Twentieth Century. Al-Andalus in the Poetry of Federico García Lorca, Louis Aragon, and Maḥmūd Darwiš 317
25. Ďurišin’s Interliterary Mediterranean as a Model for World Literature 335
26. A Female Mediterranean South? Italian Women Writers Gendering Spaces of Meridione: Nadia Terranova’s Farewell ghosts (2018) 349
27. Learning from the Sea: Migration and Maritime Archives 381
28. Notes on Contributors 395
29. Index nominum 401