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Contemporary Hispanic Crime Fiction
G Close
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Description for Contemporary Hispanic Crime Fiction
Hardback. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 363.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave MacMillan United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
230
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230607972
SKU
V9780230607972
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99-15
About G Close
Glen S. Close is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Reviews for Contemporary Hispanic Crime Fiction
"Contemporary Hispanic Crime Fiction is a clearly written, fascinating, and fresh analysis of the Spanish and Latin American crime novel. It is an informative look at intertextual and transatlantic relationships within the genre of crime fiction." - Fernando Fabio Sanchez, Portland State University