Description: Crimes Against the State Crimes Against Persons : Detective Fiction in Cuba and Mexico, Paperback by Braham, Persephone, ISBN 0816641358, ISBN-13 9780816641352, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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 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 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 Braham is assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Delaware.
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Book Title: Crimes Against the State, Crimes Against Persons : Detective Fiction in Cuba and Mexico
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Topic: Caribbean & Latin American, Ethnic Studies / General, Mystery & Detective, General, Subjects & Themes / Politics
Publication Year: 2004
Item Height: 0.4 in
Genre: Literary Criticism, Social Science
Item Weight: 10.1 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Persephone Braham
Item Width: 5.8 in
Format: Trade Paperback
