Crimes against the State, Crimes against Persons : Detective Fiction in Cuba and Mexico /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Braham, Persephone
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Misdaadromans.
Spaans.
Kriminalliteratur
Politics and literature.
Mexican fiction.
Detective and mystery stories, Mexican.
Detective and mystery stories, Cuban.
Cuban fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Caribbean & Latin American.
Politique et litterature > Mexique.
Politique et litterature > Cuba.
Roman mexicain > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Roman cubain > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Politics and literature > Mexico.
Politics and literature > Cuba.
Mexican fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Cuban fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Detective and mystery stories, Mexican > History and criticism.
Detective and mystery stories, Cuban > History and criticism.
Spanisch.
Kuba.
Mexico.
Cuba.
Mexiko
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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