Detective Fiction in Cuban Society and Culture.
Title:
Detective Fiction in Cuban Society and Culture.
Author:
Wilkinson, Stephen.
ISBN:
9783035303667
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (317 pages)
Contents:
Contents 5 -- Acknowledgements 7 -- Introduction: Why study detective fiction? 9 -- 1. The relationship between literature and society: a theoretical framework 19 -- 2. Nationalism, Marxism and sacrifice: Cuban revolutionary ideology and the Cuban state 33 -- 3. Ideology and intervention: understanding Cuban revolutionary cultural policy 53 -- 4. Bad black men and comical Chinese: the Cuban detective narrative 1915-1959 81 -- 5. Justice beyond legality: the early development of the revolutionary Cuban crime novel 109 -- 6. Socialist heroes and capitalist villains: the Cuban revolutionary crime genre 1971-1991 123 -- 7 The crash of the 1990s and the challenge to modernity: how crime narrative changes to 'fit' the times 159 -- 8. Irony, paradox and temporality: Sartrean morality in Pasado perfecto 189 -- 9. Critiques of sexual and political intolerance in the novel Máscaras and the film Fresa y chocolate 217 -- 10. From existentialism to postmodernity: the aesthetic of doubt in Vientos de cuaresma and Paisaje de otoño 251 -- Conclusion 283 -- Bibliography 289 -- Index 309.
Abstract:
This book examines Cuban society through a study of its detective fiction and more particularly contemporary Cuban society through the novels of the author and critic, Leonardo Padura Fuentes. The author traces the development of Cuban detective writing in the light of the work of twentieth century Western European literary critics and philosophers including Raymond Williams, Antonio Gramsci, Terry Eagleton, Roland Barthes, Jean Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault, Jean Francois Lyotard and Jean Baudrillard in order to gain a better understanding of the social and historical context in which this genre emerged. The analysis includes discussion of the broader philosophical, political and historical issues raised by the Cuban revolution. The book concludes that the study of this popular genre in Cuba is of crucial importance to the scholar who wishes to reach as full an understanding of the social dynamics within that society as possible.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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