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Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Detective Fiction

Author : Renée W. Craig-Odders,Jacky Collins,Glen S. Close
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786424269

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Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Detective Fiction by Renée W. Craig-Odders,Jacky Collins,Glen S. Close Pdf

The image of the hard-boiled private investigator from gritty pulp fiction, a terse and mysterious figure, has become increasingly universal as the detective novel crosses more and more borders. A booming genre in Latin America, Spain and other Hispanic cultures, detective fiction has transcended the limitations of its influences. Hispanic authors relatively new to the genre have published novels and series popular with the public, while a number of well-known writers have adapted the genre to reflect the concurrent globalization of modern society and the crimes within it. This volume presents a compilation of 11 critical essays on genero negro--contemporary detective fiction in the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian canon. Surveying the last twenty years, the text analyzes emerging trends in this rapidly evolving genre, as well as the mutations and innovations taking place within the style. The first section of the book is dedicated to the detective fiction of Spain and Portugal. The second section surveys works from Latin America and the United States, where topics touch on universal subjects like crime, identity and feminism.

Contemporary Hispanic Crime Fiction

Author : G. Close
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230614635

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Contemporary Hispanic Crime Fiction by G. Close Pdf

This study examines representations of the cityscape and of a so-called "new urban violence" in both detective-centered and detectiveless crime fiction produced in Spanish America and Spain during recent decades. It documents the emergence and permutations of this production as an index not only of local perceptions of contemporary urban experience and of a contemporary urban "ecology of fear," but also as a transnational index of the globalization of literary forms and markets. It centers on the inscription of urban space in novels set in the metropolitan centers of the Hispanic World: Mexico City, Bogota, Buenos Aires, and Barcelona.

Spanish and Latin American Women’s Crime Fiction in the New Millennium

Author : Nancy Vosburg
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527505209

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Spanish and Latin American Women’s Crime Fiction in the New Millennium by Nancy Vosburg Pdf

Crime fiction written by women in Spain and Latin America since the late 1980s has been successful in shifting attention to crimes often overlooked by their male counterparts, such as rape and sexual battery, domestic violence, child pornography, pederasty, and incest. In the twenty-first century, social, economic, and political issues, including institutional corruption, class inequality, criminalized oppression of immigrant women, crass capitalist market forces, and mediatized political and religious bodies, have at their core a gendered dimension. The conventions of the original noir, or novela negra, genre have evolved, such that some women authors challenge the noir formulas by foregrounding gender concerns while others imagine new models of crime fiction that depart drastically from the old paradigms. This volume, highlighting such evolution in the crime fiction genre, will be of interest to students, teachers, and scholars of crime fiction in Latin America and Spain, to those interested in crime fiction by women, and to readers familiar with the sub-genres of crime fiction, which include noir, the thriller, the police procedural, and the “cozy” novel.

Violence and Victimhood in Hispanic Crime Fiction

Author : Shalisa M. Collins,,Marcella L. Paul
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476632018

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Violence and Victimhood in Hispanic Crime Fiction by Shalisa M. Collins,,Marcella L. Paul Pdf

At the heart of crime fiction is an investigation into an act of violence. Studies of the genre have generally centered on the relationship between the criminal and the investigator. Focusing on contemporary crime fiction from the Spanish-speaking world, this collection of new essays explores the role of the victim. Contributors discuss how the definition of "victim," the nature of the crime, the identification of the body and its treatment by authorities reflect shifting social landscapes, changing demographics, economic crises and political corruption and instability.

Transatlantic Mysteries

Author : William J. Nichols
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781611480405

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Transatlantic Mysteries by William J. Nichols Pdf

Transatlantic Mysteries presents a comparative study that brings together authors Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán --from two specific political contexts: post-1968 Mexico and post-Franco Spain-- who both work in one specific genre--"noir" detective fiction. In this so called age of globalization, Spain and Mexico have witnessed an explosion in the production of "noir" detective fiction which these authors choose purposefully in order to infiltrate the market with formulaic "popular" literature while simultaneously critiquing the effects of the neoliberal strategies embraced by their countries. By locating themselves at the crossroads where literature meets the market, they not only underscore the effects of capital onliterary and cultural production but also explore the possibility for their writing to resist the influences of capital and question the role of an intellectual in an era of globalization. At the core of their writing Taibo and Vázquez Montalbánexamine the revolutionary possibilities of literature and popular culture to offer a new kind of Marxist project that revitalizes the Left by redefining the role of socially engaged literature in a globalized landscape.

forum for inter-american research Vol 4

Author : Wilfried Raussert
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783946507802

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forum for inter-american research Vol 4 by Wilfried Raussert Pdf

Volume 4 of 6 of the complete premium print version of journal forum for inter-american research (fiar), which is the official electronic journal of the International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS). fiar was established by the American Studies Program at Bielefeld University in 2008. We foster a dialogic and interdisciplinary approach to the study of the Americas. fiar is a peer-reviewed online journal. Articles in this journal undergo a double-blind review process and are published in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish.

Spanish Women Authors of Serial Crime Fiction

Author : Inmaculada Pertusa-Seva,Melissa A. Stewart
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527559967

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Spanish Women Authors of Serial Crime Fiction by Inmaculada Pertusa-Seva,Melissa A. Stewart Pdf

With its focus on recent detective series featuring female investigators, this collection analyzes the authors’ treatment of current social, political and economic problems in Spain and beyond, in addition to exploring interrelations between gender, globalization, the environment and technology. The contributions here reveal the varied ways in which the use of a series allows for a deeper consideration of such issues, in addition to permitting the more extensive development of the protagonist investigator and her reactions to, and methods of, dealing with personal and professional challenges of the twenty-first century. In these stories, the authors employ strategies that break with long-standing conventions, developing crime fiction in unexpected ways, incorporating elements of science fiction, the supernatural, and the historical novel, as well as varied geographical settings (small towns, provincial cities, and rural communities) beyond the urban environment, all of which contributes to the reinvigoration of the genre.

Iberian Crime Fiction

Author : Nancy Vosburg
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780708323335

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Iberian Crime Fiction by Nancy Vosburg Pdf

Iberian Crime Fiction is the first volume in English to provide an extensive overview of crime fiction in Spain and Portugal. While the origins of peninsular crime fiction are traced in Nancy Vosburg's introductory chapter to the volume, the essays focus on specific topics that provide readers with a sense of the development of the genre in the second half of the 20th-century and current trends in the 21st-century. Patty Hart, whose The Spanish Sleuth introduced English-speaking readers to early crime fiction in Spain, provides a summary account of the development of the crime novel from the 1950s through the 1980s, highlighting the major authors and works that set the stage for the boom that followed the establishment of the novela negra tradition in the 1970s. This tradition, spearheaded by Manuel Vazquez Montalban, is the subject of a separate essay by Maria Balibrea that analyzes the socio-political conditions that gave rise to the novela negra. NancyVosburg studies the emergence of a feminine/feminist crime novel in the 1980s and 1990s and the subversion of masculine codes associated with crime fiction, while Stewart King analyzes crime fiction from the Catalan, Basque, and Galician autonomous regions of Spain, focusing on the political realities that resulted in a different use of the genre as a vehicle of regional nationalism. David Knutson traces contemporary trends in Spanish crime fiction, beginning in the 1990s and up to the present. Paul Castro's essay documents the emergence of crime fiction in Portugal and the major works/authors through to the present.

The Cambridge Companion to World Crime Fiction

Author : Stewart King,Jesper Gulddal,Alistair Rolls
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781108484596

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The Cambridge Companion to World Crime Fiction by Stewart King,Jesper Gulddal,Alistair Rolls Pdf

The first systematic account of crime fiction as a global genre, offering unprecedented coverage of distinct traditions across the world.

World Literature in Spanish [3 volumes]

Author : Maureen Ihrie,Salvador Oropesa
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1509 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313080838

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World Literature in Spanish [3 volumes] by Maureen Ihrie,Salvador Oropesa Pdf

Containing roughly 850 entries about Spanish-language literature throughout the world, this expansive work provides coverage of the varied countries, ethnicities, time periods, literary movements, and genres of these writings. Providing a thorough introduction to Spanish-language literature worldwide and across time is a tall order. However, World Literature in Spanish: An Encyclopedia contains roughly 850 entries on both major and minor authors, themes, genres, and topics of Spanish literature from the Middle Ages to the present day, affording an amazingly comprehensive reference collection in a single work. This encyclopedia describes the growing diversity within national borders, the increasing interdependence among nations, and the myriad impacts of Spanish literature across the globe. All countries that produce literature in Spanish in Europe, Africa, the Americas, and Asia are represented, covering both canonical authors and emerging contemporary writers and trends. Underrepresented writings—such as texts by women writers, queer and Afro-Hispanic texts, children's literature, and works on relevant but less studied topics such as sports and nationalism—also appear. While writings throughout the centuries are covered, those of the 20th and 21st centuries receive special consideration.

Policing Gender and Alicia Giménez Bartlett's Crime Fiction

Author : Nina L. Molinaro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317079057

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Policing Gender and Alicia Giménez Bartlett's Crime Fiction by Nina L. Molinaro Pdf

Alicia Giménez Bartlett’s popular crime series, written in Spanish and organized around the exploits of Police Inspector Petra Delicado and Deputy Inspector Fermin Garzon, is arguably the most successful detective series published in Spain during the previous three decades. Nina L. Molinaro examines the tensions between the rhetoric of gender differences espoused by the woman detective and the orthodox ideology of the police procedural. She argues that even as the series incorporates gender differences into the crime series formula, it does so in order to correct women, naturalize men’s authority, sanction social hierarchies, and assuage collective anxieties. As Molinaro shows, with the exception of the protagonist, the women characters require constant surveillance and modification, often as a result of men’s supposedly intrinsic protectiveness or excessive sexuality. Men, by contrast, circulate more freely in the fictional world and are intrinsic to the political, psychological, and economic prosperity of their communities. Molinaro situates her discussion in Petra Delicado’s contemporary Spain of dog owners, ¡Hola!, Russian cults, and gated communities.

Mediterranean Crime Fiction

Author : Barbara Pezzotti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009451475

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Mediterranean Crime Fiction by Barbara Pezzotti Pdf

By exploring the transcultural nature of Mediterranean crime fiction, Barbara Pezzotti advocates for a regional 'reading' of the genre.

Female Corpses in Crime Fiction

Author : Glen S. Close
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783319990132

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Female Corpses in Crime Fiction by Glen S. Close Pdf

This book examines the central significance of sexualized female corpses in modern and contemporary Hispanic and Anglophone crime fiction. Beginning with the foundational detective fictions of the nineteenth century, it draws from diverse subgenres to describe a transatlantic tradition of necropornography characterized by lascivious interest in female cadavers, dissection, morgues, femicide, and snuff movies. Hard-boiled and police procedural classics from the U.S. and the U.K. are juxtaposed with texts by established Spanish and Spanish American genre masters and with obscure works that prefigure the contemporary transmedial boom in corpse-centered fictions. The rhetoric and aesthetics of necropornographic crime fiction are related to those of popular crime journalism and forensic-science television dramas. This study argues that crime fiction has long fixated disproportionately on the corpses of beautiful young white women and continues to treat their deaths and autopsies as occasions for male visual pleasure, male subjective self-affirmation and male homosocial bonding.

Transnational Crime Fiction

Author : Maarit Piipponen,Helen Mäntymäki,Marinella Rodi-Risberg
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030534134

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Transnational Crime Fiction by Maarit Piipponen,Helen Mäntymäki,Marinella Rodi-Risberg Pdf

Focusing on contemporary crime narratives from different parts of the world, this collection of essays explores the mobility of crimes, criminals and investigators across social, cultural and national borders. The essays argue that such border crossings reflect on recent sociocultural transformations and geopolitical anxieties to create an image of networked and interconnected societies where crime is not easily contained. The book further analyses crime texts’ wider sociocultural and affective significance by examining the global mobility of the genre itself across cultures, languages and media. Underlining the global reach and mobility of the crime genre, the collection analyses types and representations of mobility in literary and visual crime narratives, inviting comparisons between texts, crimes and mobilities in a geographically diverse context. The collection ultimately understands mobility as an object of study and a critical lens through which transformations in our globalised world can be examined.

Contemporary World Fiction

Author : Juris Dilevko,Keren Dali,Glenda Garbutt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781598849097

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Contemporary World Fiction by Juris Dilevko,Keren Dali,Glenda Garbutt Pdf

This much-needed guide to translated literature offers readers the opportunity to hear from, learn about, and perhaps better understand our shrinking world from the perspective of insiders from many cultures and traditions. In a globalized world, knowledge about non-North American societies and cultures is a must. Contemporary World Fiction: A Guide to Literature in Translation provides an overview of the tremendous range and scope of translated world fiction available in English. In so doing, it will help readers get a sense of the vast world beyond North America that is conveyed by fiction titles from dozens of countries and language traditions. Within the guide, approximately 1,000 contemporary non-English-language fiction titles are fully annotated and thousands of others are listed. Organization is primarily by language, as language often reflects cultural cohesion better than national borders or geographies, but also by country and culture. In addition to contemporary titles, each chapter features a brief overview of earlier translated fiction from the group. The guide also provides in-depth bibliographic essays for each chapter that will enable librarians and library users to further explore the literature of numerous languages and cultural traditions.