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Crimes against the state, crimes against persons : detective fiction in Cuba and Mexico / Persephone Braham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Braham, Persephone.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Detective and mystery stories, Cuban--History and criticism.
- Detective and mystery stories, Cuban.
- Detective and mystery stories, Mexican--History and criticism.
- Detective and mystery stories, Mexican.
- Cuban fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Cuban fiction.
- Mexican fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Mexican fiction.
- Politics and literature--Cuba.
- Politics and literature.
- Politics and literature--Mexico.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (187 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-164) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9470-2
- OCLC:
- 614925321
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