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Crimes against the State, Crimes against Persons: Detective Fiction in Cuba and Mexico
Persephone Braham
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Description for Crimes against the State, Crimes against Persons: Detective Fiction in Cuba and Mexico
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 1KLCM; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 249.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816641352
SKU
V9780816641352
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About Persephone Braham
Persephone Braham is assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Delaware.
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