 | Crimes against the State, Crimes against Persons: Detective Fiction in Cuba and Mexico Subjects: Detective and mystery stories Cuban -- History and criticism; Detective and mystery stories Mexican -- History and criticism; Cuban fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Mexican fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Politics and; Persephone Braham shows how the Cuban novela negra examines the Revolution through a chronicle of life under a decaying regime, and how the Mexican neopoliciaco reveals the oppressive politics of modernization in Latin America.Considering the work of writers such as Leonardo Padura Fuentes as well as G. K. Chesterton, Braham addresses Marxist critiques of the culture industry and Latin American postmodernity. |
