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Author:

Nichols, William J., 1970-

Title:

Transatlantic mysteries : crime, culture, and capital in the noir novels of Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán / William J. Nichols.

Publisher:

Bucknell University Press ;

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

206 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Taibo, Paco Ignacio,--1949---Criticism and interpretation.
Vázquez Montalbán, Manuel--Criticism and interpretation.
Detective and mystery stories, Mexican--History and criticism.
Detective and mystery stories, Spanish--History and criticism.
Crime in literature.
Literature and society--Mexico--History--20th century.
Literature and society--Spain--History--20th century.
Comparative literature--Mexican and Spanish.
Comparative literature--Spanish and Mexican.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Social crisis, modernization, and the emergence of the novela negra in Mexico and Spain -- Reading and (re) writing culture : subversion of models, models of subversion -- Poisonville reincarnated : modernization, metropolis and spaces of self-representation -- Memories of underdevelopment : resurrecting revolution -- Crimes against culture : anti-imperialism in Taibo and Vázquez Montalbán.

ISBN:

0838757723 (alk. paper)
9780838757727 (alk. paper)
1611480418 (electronic)
9781611480412 (electronic)
161148040X (cloth)
9781611480405 (cloth)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)607321609

LCCN:

2010014054

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)