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| Author | : Amelia S. Simpson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : |
Following the historical development of the genre from its origins in the late nineteenth century to the present, this study of crime and mystery fiction from Latin America focuses on literature from the River Plate, Brazil, Mexico, and Cuba.
| Author | : Fabricio Tocco |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2022-04-06 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1793651655 |
This book examines how Latin American detective stories portray individualism and the state through the figures of the private eye and the police. Fabricio Tocco argues that these portrayals constitute a far more radical critique than the one developed by the Anglo-American canon, culminating in a transnational “poetics of failure” rooted in dissatisfaction with the neoliberal state.
| Author | : Amelia S. Simpson |
| Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
| Total Pages | : 172 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780838634530 |
Amusing look at provincial Brazilians and maintains as well a suspenseful narrative concerning a young boy's mysterious disappearance. Finally, Cuban author Arnaldo Correa's "The Man under the Ceiba Tree" subtly undermines the transparent approach of much socialist detective fiction of the postrevolutionary period. Like all good mystery and crime stories, these can be read simply for pleasure, as well as for the insights they offer into Latin American culture and.
| Author | : Darrell B. Lockhart |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2004-03-30 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0313061548 |
Latin America has a rich literary tradition that is receiving growing amounts of attention. The body of Latin American mystery writing is especially vast and diverse. Because it is part of Latin American popular culture, it also reflects many of the social and cultural concerns of that region. This reference provides an overview of mystery fiction of Latin America. While many of the authors profiled have received critical attention, others have been relatively neglected. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on 54 writers, most of whom are from Argentina, Mexico, and Cuba. Every effort has been made to include balanced coverage of the few female mystery writers. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a brief biography, a critical discussion of the writer's works, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume closes with a general bibliography of anthologies and criticism.
| Author | : Nancy Vosburg |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 179 |
| Release | : 2017-11-06 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1527505200 |
Crime fiction written by women in Spain and Latin America since the late 1980s has been successful in shifting attention to crimes often overlooked by their male counterparts, such as rape and sexual battery, domestic violence, child pornography, pederasty, and incest. In the twenty-first century, social, economic, and political issues, including institutional corruption, class inequality, criminalized oppression of immigrant women, crass capitalist market forces, and mediatized political and religious bodies, have at their core a gendered dimension. The conventions of the original noir, or novela negra, genre have evolved, such that some women authors challenge the noir formulas by foregrounding gender concerns while others imagine new models of crime fiction that depart drastically from the old paradigms. This volume, highlighting such evolution in the crime fiction genre, will be of interest to students, teachers, and scholars of crime fiction in Latin America and Spain, to those interested in crime fiction by women, and to readers familiar with the sub-genres of crime fiction, which include noir, the thriller, the police procedural, and the “cozy” novel.
| Author | : Renée W. Craig-Odders |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 237 |
| Release | : 2006-03-20 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0786424265 |
The image of the hard-boiled private investigator from gritty pulp fiction, a terse and mysterious figure, has become increasingly universal as the detective novel crosses more and more borders. A booming genre in Latin America, Spain and other Hispanic cultures, detective fiction has transcended the limitations of its influences. Hispanic authors relatively new to the genre have published novels and series popular with the public, while a number of well-known writers have adapted the genre to reflect the concurrent globalization of modern society and the crimes within it. This volume presents a compilation of 11 critical essays on genero negro--contemporary detective fiction in the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian canon. Surveying the last twenty years, the text analyzes emerging trends in this rapidly evolving genre, as well as the mutations and innovations taking place within the style. The first section of the book is dedicated to the detective fiction of Spain and Portugal. The second section surveys works from Latin America and the United States, where topics touch on universal subjects like crime, identity and feminism.
| Author | : Nels Pearson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2016-04-22 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1317151968 |
Taking up a neglected area in the study of the crime novel, this collection investigates the growing number of writers who adapt conventions of detective fiction to expose problems of law, ethics, and truth that arise in postcolonial and transnational communities. While detective fiction has been linked to imperialism and constructions of race from its earliest origins, recent developments signal the evolution of the genre into a potent framework for narrating the complexities of identity, citizenship, and justice in a postcolonial world. Among the authors considered are Vikram Chandra, Gabriel García Márquez, Michael Ondaatje, Patrick Chamoiseau, Mario Vargas Llosa, Suki Kim, and Walter Mosley. The essays explore detective stories set in Latin America, the Caribbean, India, and North America, including novels that view the American metropolis from the point of view of Asian American, African American, or Latino characters. Offering ten new and original essays by scholars in the field, this volume highlights the diverse employment of detective fictions internationally, and uncovers important political and historical subtexts of popular crime novels.
| Author | : Eli Lawrence Wainman |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 99 |
| Release | : 1999 |
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| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Josefina Ludmer |
| Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Pre |
| Total Pages | : 401 |
| Release | : 2004-06-20 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0822970821 |
An intellectual tour de force from one of today’s leading critics of Latin American literature and culture, The Corpus Delicti (The Body of Crime) is a manual of crime, a compendium of crime tales, and an extended meditation on the central role of crime in literature, in life, and in the life of the nation. Drawing her examples from canonical texts, popular novels, newspaper serials, and more, Josefina Ludmer captures the wide range of Argentine crime stories and detective fiction from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She offers more than a mere genre study, examining the relationship of crime and punishment to the formation of law, the body, and the modern state, exposing the ways in which literature—both high art and mass culture—can help construct, not just represent, social reality. Covering a dazzling array of primary sources, social history, and cultural theory, this provocative work is also a structural masterpiece, challenging readers as it charts new roles for text and notes. In this redefined dialogue, the notes variously offer alternate views, additional insights, and, often, parallel commentaries. Glen Close’s stylish translation captures the energy of Ludmer’s prose—simultaneously subtle and daring—for English-language readers.
| Author | : Beatriz A. Ramirez |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 214 |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
Detective fiction, as established in Anglo-American traditions, posed a formula for portraying crime and justice. Since its popularity in the 19th century, Latin America and Chicano authors have developed their own forms of detective fiction to portray the realistic conditions of their respective cities. The dissertation employs an interdisciplinary framework that engages with Hemispheric studies, literature studies, and cultural geography to explore the form and political commitment that Latin American and Latino authors use to provide counter-narratives of the city and their communities. Using the framework of hemispheric studies, I bridge Chicano/a and Latin American studies to explore detective novels in in Santiago, Chile, Mexico City, Mexicali, and Albuquerque, New Mexico. I explore how social and geopolitical spaces inform the crimes and characterization of the detective in these respective spaces. Chapter one and two explores vigilante detectives and their nostalgic memory of democracy in their respective cities. Chapter three and four transitions to the U.S.-Mexico border where Mexican and Chicano detectives define crime in terms of how their border cities' socio-economic conditions facilitate the production of crime vis-a-vis the trafficking of women and drugs. Lastly, Chapter five focuses on Chicano/a detectives in Albuquerque to examine how city politics disenfranchise Chicano/a communities in the city. My dissertation concludes with reflections on the development of detective fiction by Latin American and Chicana/o authors. I reflect on how these authors shape a genre of the "Americas" through a political commitment against state corruption and marginalization of dominant cultures.
