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Blood on the Table: Essays on Food in International Crime Fiction
Contributor(s): Anderson, Jean (Editor), Miranda, Carolina (Editor), Pezzotti, Barbara (Editor)
ISBN: 1476671753     ISBN-13: 9781476671758
Publisher: McFarland & Company
OUR PRICE:   $54.45  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: April 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Mystery & Detective Fiction
Dewey: 809.387
LCCN: 2018008761
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.8" W x 8.7" (0.55 lbs) 191 pages
 
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Written from a multicultural and interdisciplinary perspective, this collection of new essays explores the semiotics of food in the 20th- and 21st-century crime fiction of authors such as Anthony Bourdain, Arthur Upfield, Sara Paretsky, Andrea Camilleri, Fred Vargas, Ruth Rendell, Stieg Larsson, Leonardo Padura, Georges Simenon, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, and Donna Leon. The collection covers a range of issues, such as the provision of intra-, peri- or paratextual recipes, the aesthetics and ethics of food, eating rituals as indications of cultural belonging, and regional, national and supranational identities. It also tackles eating disorders and other seemingly abnormal habits as signs of Otherness. Also mentioned are the television productions of 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).