A sea of islands, a sea of crime: island crime fiction in the Aegean Sea

Ralph J. Crane

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Crime and Detective Fiction Studies Contemporary Literature and Criticism Spatial and Cultural Studies

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Crime fiction frequently takes the real and imaginary geography of islands as its setting and subject.Through a reading of selected novels by Anne Zouroudi, Jeffrey Siger, and Paul Johnston, this article looks at ways in which ideas about 'islandness' operate in contemporary English-language crime fiction set in the Aegean Sea.Specifically, it uses geocriticism and spatial literary studies to explore the ways non-textual paratext-in particular covers and maps-work alongside a text, or narrative, to capitalize on the lure of islands.

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