Crime scenes in Latin America's novela negra (1960s-2010s) / Charlotte Lange and Ailsa Peate -- Avenging assassins : women and power in Rosario Tijeras (1999) by Jorge Franco and La reina del sur (2002) by Arturo Pérez Reverte / Pascale Baker -- What happens in Clipperton? : criminality and trauma in Isla de pasión (1989) by Laura Restrepo and Isla de Bobos (2007) by Ana García Bergua / Niamh Thornton -- That's funny : Mexican crime fiction according to Jorge Ibargüengoitia / Charlotte Lange -- Collective culpability in Costa Rica : the case of Quince Duncan's Kimbo / Elizabeth Harvey-Kattou -- Cracking up : interpreting the crime scene(s) in Claudia Piñeiro's Las grietas de Jara / Fiona Mackintosh -- Map-maker most foul : Rodolfo Walsh's "Cartas" and the geography of crime / David Conlon -- Roberto Ampuero and The Neruda case : the detective, the poet, the "converso" / Philip Swanson -- Havana noir : space and memory in Leonardo Padura's Mario Conde detective series / Diana Battaglia -- Disturbing scenes in Amir Valle's detective series El descenso a los infiernos / Ailsa Peate -- Scenes from the most violent city in the world : Caracas muerde and Muerte en el Guaire / Katie Brown.
Summary:
"Crime fiction has become a key element in Latin American literature. The rise in production of the genre can be explained by an urgency to explore issues of morality in societies which incorporate varying levels of censorship and corruption. Through a focus on the concept of the crime scene itself, this book identifies and interrogates some of the principal developments in contemporary Latin American crime fiction. In ten chapters which cover Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico and Venezuela, and generic diversity which spans police procedurals, narcoliteratura, postmodern detection, and historical portrayals of crimes, the authors investigate how the crime scene - which has always been central to the genre and its subgenres - critiques local and global issues, including social injustice, discrimination, neoliberalism, violence, identity, corruption, and memory"-- Provided by publisher.
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