Description: Crimes against the State, Crimes against PersonsDetective Fiction in Cuba and Mexico Author(s): Persephone Braham Format: Paperback Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States Imprint: University of Minnesota Press ISBN-13: 9780816641352, 978-0816641352 Synopsis The transplanted, inherently modern detective genre serves as an especially effective lens for exposing the fissures and divergences of modernity in post-1968 Mexico and revolutionary Cuba. Combining in-depth critical analyses with the theoretical insights of current literary and cultural theory and Latin American postmodern studies, Crimes against the State, Crimes against Persons shows how the Cuban novela negra examines the Revolution through an incisive chronicle of life under a decaying regime, and how the Mexican neopoliciaco reveals the oppressive politics of modernization and globalization in Latin America. International in scope, comparative in approach, Braham's study presents a unique inquiry into the ethical and aesthetic complexities that Latin American authors face in adapting genre detective fiction-a modern, metropolitan model-to radically diverse creative and ideological programs. Considering the work of writers such as Leonardo Padura Fuentes and Paco Ignacio Taibo II, as well as such English-language influences as G. K. Chesterton and Chester Himes, Braham also addresses Marxist critiques of the culture industry and emergent Latin American concepts of postmodernity.
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Book Title: Crimes against the State, Crimes against Persons
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Item Height: 229 mm
Subject: Social Sciences, History
Publication Year: 2004
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Name: Crimes Against the State, Crimes Against Persons: Detective Fiction in Cuba and Mexico
Language: English
Type: Textbook
Author: Persephone Braham
Item Width: 149 mm
Format: Paperback
