Inclusive searches & sources @UvA Romance languages (4)

(Scholarly literature on) Spanish crime fiction about & by women (2)
Books at the UvA Library (and their authors)

The present post is complementary to the previous one not only in the shared topic but also in the search strategies it explores and, therefore, in the results those retrieve. If you are researching ‘Spanish crime fiction about & by women’, please take a look at both posts.

Search strategy in CataloguePlus

To expand the concise search string used to find books about & by Alicia Giménez-Bartlett, the following combination of keywords, symbols and booleans can be used (see screenshot below for how it ‘translates’ in CataloguePlus, including limiting the results to books only):

(novel* OR cuento* OR ficcion OR story OR stories OR fiction) (policia* OR detective* OR criminal* OR police OR crime) (espan* OR latinoamerica* OR hispan* OR iberoamerica* OR spain OR spanish OR “latin* america*” OR “south america*”) (mujer* OR femenin* OR woman OR women OR female OR feminin*)

Please consider removing the last set of brackets to more generally explore Spanish and Latin American crime fiction, as this might contribute titles of publications methodologically or thematically helpful for framing the more specific ‘women’ topic (two examples could be: Malgorzata Janerka, La novela policiaca española (1975-2005): Ante los problemas de la sociedad española contemporánea , Academia del Hispanismo, 2010; and Osvaldo Di Paolo Harrison, Queer noir hispánico, Isla Negra Editores, 2018).

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Out of the list of sixteen books retrieved by the above search, the following five (among which Molinaro’s belonged also to the set of results found when searching on Alicia Giménez-Bartlett) specifically address the topic of Spanish crime fiction about & by women:

• Diana Aramburu, Resisting invisibility: Detecting the female body in Spanish crime fiction, University of Toronto Press, 2019.
• Shelley Godsland, Killing Carmens: Women’s crime fiction from Spain, University of Wales Press, 2007.
• Elena Losada Soler – Katarzyna Paszkiewicz (eds.),  Tras la pista: Narrativa criminal escrita por mujeres, Icaria, 2015.
• Nina L. Molinaro, Policing gender and Alicia Giménez Bartlett’s crime fiction, Routledge, 2015.
• Nancy Vosburg – Nina L. Molinaro (eds.), Spanish and Latin American women’s crime fiction in the new millenium: From noir to gris, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

Additional searches

• check also the journal articles found at CataloguePlus with the above search;
• browse all five books’ bibliographical references (backward citation tracking), and check ‘Cited by’ at Google Scholar for publications which might have cited the books (forward citation tracking);
• use the above search string to explore other relevant sources, such as MLA International Bibliography, Dialnet (mind the limit of 160 characters in the search field) and SciELO (also via Web of Science for better search options);
• check the personal pages of the books’ authors for more (preprint or grey) literature on the topic, and for discovering possible groups/networks of specialists the authors belong to:
  Diana Aramburu (University of California Davis)
  Shelley Godsland (University of Amsterdam)
  Elena Losada Soler (Universitat de Barcelona)
  Nina Molinaro (University of Colorado Boulder)
  Katarzyna Paszkiewicz (Universitat de les Illes Balears)
  Nancy Vosburg (Stetson University)