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Violence and victimhood in Hispanic crime fiction : essays on contemporary works /

"At the heart of crime fiction is an investigation into an act of violence. Studies of the genre have generally centered on the relationship between the criminal and the investigator. Focusing on contemporary crime fiction from the Spanish-speaking world, this collection of new essays explores...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Collins, Shalisa M., 1973- (Editor ), Craig-Odders, Renée W. (Editor ), Paul, Marcella L., 1952- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2018]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Expendable commodities: women and children as victims of the sex trade in contemporary Spanish crime fiction / Renée W. Craig-Odders
  • Susana Hernández's crime fiction and resolution through resistance / Nina L. Molinaro
  • Male victims and marked male bodies in two Bevilacqua novels / Elena Iglesias-Villamel
  • Violence as representative of societal ethos in Arturo Pérez-Reverte's El francotirador paciente / Jeffrey Oxford
  • Who is the victim here?: the city, the corpse and genre in the crime novels of Ramón Díaz Eterović / Shalisa M. Collins
  • Crime and punishment: from victims to avengers in Eduardo Sacheri's La noche de la Usina / Carolina Miranda
  • Bodies and other texts: censored readings in Martín Solares' Los minutos negros / Marcella L. Paul
  • The lost daughters of Mexico: crime and impunity in David Toscana's Los Puentes de Kinigsberg / Judy Cervantes
  • Reimaging the novela negra: the victim's perspective in "El chico sucio" / Gizella Meneses.