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Crimes against the state, crimes against persons : detective fiction in Cuba and Mexico /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis, Minn. :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 169 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-164) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816694709 0816694702 9780816641345 081664134X 9780816641352 0816641358 |