Argentina noir : new millennium crime novels in Buenos Aires / Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schmidt-Cruz, Cynthia, author.

Series:

SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture.

SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Noir fiction, Argentine--History and criticism.

Noir fiction, Argentine.

Argentine fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

Argentine fiction.

Crime in literature.

Buenos Aires (Argentina)--In literature.

Buenos Aires (Argentina).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 pages).

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, 2019.

Summary:

Argentina Noir offers a guide to Argentine crime fiction, with a focus on works published since the year 2000. It argues that the novela negra, or crime novel, has become the favored genre for many writers to address the social malaise brought about by changes linked to globalization and market-driven economic policies. Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz presents close readings and original interpretations of eleven novels, all set in or around Buenos Aires, and explores the ways these texts adapt major motifs, figures, and literary techniques in Hispanic crime fiction in order to give voice to wide-ranging social critiques. Schmidt-Cruz addresses such topics as organized crime and institutional complicity, corruption during the presidency of Carlos Menem (1989–1999), terrorist attacks on Jewish institutions in Buenos Aires and the mysterious death of Alberto Nisman, and the winners and the losers of neoliberal structural changes. With a solid underpinning in sociological studies and criticism of the genre and its historical context, Argentina Noir reveals how these novels are renovating the genre to engage pressing issues confronting not only Argentina but also countries throughout Latin America and around the globe.

Contents:

Argentina noir

Combatting organized crime and institutional complicity, with a sentimental subtext

The president and all his men: watchdog journalists tackle corruption during the Menem presidency

Terrorist attacks on Jewish Buenos Aires and the mysterious death of Alberto Nisman

Trouble in the country club or "los nuevos ricos también lloran"

The "other side": the urban poor and the crime novel

Conclusion: social collapse and human connections.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438473055

1438473052

OCLC:

1428235614