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Title:

Violence and victimhood in Hispanic crime fiction : essays on contemporary works / edited by Shalisa M. Collins, Renée W. Craig-Odders and Marcella L. Paul.

Publisher:

McFarland & CompanyInc., Publishers,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

vi, 186 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Detective and mystery stories, Spanish--History and criticism.
Detective and mystery stories, Latin American--History and criticism.
Spanish fiction--History and criticism.
Latin American fiction--History and criticism.
Violence in literature.
Crime in literature.
Crime in literature.
Detective and mystery stories, Latin American.
Detective and mystery stories, Spanish.
Latin American fiction.
Spanish fiction.
Violence in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Other Authors:

Collins, Shalisa M., 1973- editor.
Craig-Odders, Renée W., editor.
Paul, Marcella L., 1952- editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Preface -- Introduction / Shalisa M. Collins, Renée W. Craig-Odders, and Marcella L. Paul -- Spain. Expendable commodities : women and children as victims of the sex trade in contemporary Spanish crime fiction / Renée W. Craig-Odders ; Susana Hernández's crime fiction and resolution through resistance / Nina L. Molinaro ; Dying like a man : feminization and castration in two novels by Lorenzo Silva / Elena Iglesias-Villamel ; Violence as representative of societal ethos in Arturo Pérez-Reverte's El francotirador paciente / Jeffrey Oxford -- Latin America. Who is the victim here? : the city, the corpse and genre in the crime novels of Ramón Díaz Eterović / Shalisa M. Collins ; Crime and punishment : from victims to avengers in Eduardo Sacheri's La noche de la Usina / Carolina Miranda ; Bodies and other texts : censoring the victim in Martín Solares' Los minutos negros / Marcella L. Paul ; The lost daughters of Mexico : crime and impunity in David Toscana's Los Puentes de Königsberg / Judy Cervantes ; Reimaging the novela negra : the victim's perspective in "El chico sucio" / Gizella Meneses.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0786499087
9780786499083

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1005195622

LCCN:

2018023801

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)