02168    a2200325   4500001001100000005001700011008003900028020001800067037003600085040000700121041000800128072001500136072001500151072001600166072001500182072001300197072001300210072001600223072001500239072002100254072002100275072002100296072002200317100001700339245006400356250000600420260003200426300001000458520137400468103209234320250317100408.0250312042021GB                   eng    a9781032092348  bTaylor & FranciscGBP 42.99fBB  a01  aeng7 aDSB2thema7 aDSA2thema7 a1DSE2bisac7 a1KL2bisac7 aDSB2bic7 aDSA2bic7 a1DSE2bisac7 a1KL2bisac7 aLCO0000002bisac7 aLIT0000002bisac7 aLIT0042802bisac7 a863.0872092bisac1 aStewart King10aMurder in the Multinational StatebCrime Fiction from Spain  a1  aOxfordbRoutledgec20210630  a212 p  bAs Spaniards set out to transform the political, social and cultural landscape of the nation following the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, its crime fiction traces, challenges and celebrates these radical changes. Crime Fiction from Spain: Murder in the Multinational State provides a comprehensive exploration of the relationship between detective fiction and national and cultural identities in post-Franco democratic Spain. What sort of stories are told about the nation within the state in the crime genre? How do the conventions of the crime story shape not only the production of national and cultural identities, but also their disruption? Combining criminological theories of crime and community with an analysis of the genre’s conventions, this study challenges the simple classification of Spanish crime fiction as texts written by Spaniards, set in Spain and with Spanish characters. Instead, it develops a dramatic new reading practice which allows for a greater understanding of the role of crime fiction in the construction and articulation of different and, at times, competing, national and cultural identities, including in the Basque Country, Catalonia and Galicia. The book provides a stimulating introduction to the key debates on the study of crime fiction and national and cultural identities in the context of a multinational state.