Crimes against the State, Crimes against Persons : Detective Fiction in Cuba and Mexico.
Title:
Crimes against the State, Crimes against Persons : Detective Fiction in Cuba and Mexico.
Author:
Braham, Persephone.
ISBN:
9780816694709
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (187 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Latin American Detective Literature in Context -- 1. Origins and Ideologies of the Neopoliciaco -- Cuba: Crimes against the State -- 2. A Revolutionary Aesthetic -- 3. Masking, Unmasking, and the Return to Signification -- Mexico: Crimes against Persons -- 4. Contesting "la mexicanidad" -- 5. The Dismembered City -- Epilogue: Globalization and Detective Literature in Spanish -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
Persephone Braham shows how the Cuban novela negra examines the Revolution through a chronicle of life under a decaying regime, and how the Mexican neopoliciaco reveals the oppressive politics of modernization in Latin America.Considering the work of writers such as Leonardo Padura Fuentes as well as G. K. Chesterton, Braham addresses Marxist critiques of the culture industry and Latin American postmodernity.
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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