Crimes against the State, Crimes against Persons: Detective Fiction in Cuba and Mexico
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Crimes against the State, Crimes against Persons: Detective Fiction in Cuba and Mexico
By (Author) Persephone Braham
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
5th February 2004
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
863.087209972
Physical Properties
Paperback
192
Width 149mm, Height 229mm, Spine 10mm
Description
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.
Author Bio
Persephone Braham is assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Delaware.
