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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819544003321

Autore

Braham Persephone

Titolo

Crimes against the state, crimes against persons : detective fiction in Cuba and Mexico / / Persephone Braham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minn., : University of Minnesota Press, c2004

ISBN

0-8166-9470-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (187 p.)

Disciplina

863/.08720997291

Soggetti

Detective and mystery stories, Cuban - History and criticism

Detective and mystery stories, Mexican - History and criticism

Cuban fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Mexican fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Politics and literature - Cuba

Politics and literature - Mexico

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-164) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Latin American Detective Literature in Context; Cuba: Crimes against the State; Mexico: Crimes against Persons; Epilogue: Globalization and Detective Literature in Spanish; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.