Transatlantic Mysteries
Transatlantic Mysteries

Author: William J. Nichols

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 161148040X

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Transatlantic Mysteries presents a comparative study that brings together authors Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán --from two specific political contexts: post-1968 Mexico and post-Franco Spain-- who both work in one specific genre--"noir" detective fiction. In this so called age of globalization, Spain and Mexico have witnessed an explosion in the production of "noir" detective fiction which these authors choose purposefully in order to infiltrate the market with formulaic "popular" literature while simultaneously critiquing the effects of the neoliberal strategies embraced by their countries. By locating themselves at the crossroads where literature meets the market, they not only underscore the effects of capital onliterary and cultural production but also explore the possibility for their writing to resist the influences of capital and question the role of an intellectual in an era of globalization. At the core of their writing Taibo and Vázquez Montalbánexamine the revolutionary possibilities of literature and popular culture to offer a new kind of Marxist project that revitalizes the Left by redefining the role of socially engaged literature in a globalized landscape.

Latin American Mystery Writers
Latin American Mystery Writers

Author: Darrell B. Lockhart

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2004-03-30

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0313061548

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Latin America has a rich literary tradition that is receiving growing amounts of attention. The body of Latin American mystery writing is especially vast and diverse. Because it is part of Latin American popular culture, it also reflects many of the social and cultural concerns of that region. This reference provides an overview of mystery fiction of Latin America. While many of the authors profiled have received critical attention, others have been relatively neglected. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on 54 writers, most of whom are from Argentina, Mexico, and Cuba. Every effort has been made to include balanced coverage of the few female mystery writers. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a brief biography, a critical discussion of the writer's works, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume closes with a general bibliography of anthologies and criticism.

Subverting Sex, Gender, and Genre in Cuban and Mexican Detective Fiction
Subverting Sex, Gender, and Genre in Cuban and Mexican Detective Fiction

Author: Ailsa Peate

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2024-09-25

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1837645256

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The presence of bodies and sex in detective fiction has been a long-term feature of this internationally popular genre. Titillation is at the centre of narratives reliant upon discovery and revelation: motives and criminals are slowly revealed, along with sexualized and violated bodies – from femmes fatales to the corpses of victims. A satisfying, gratifying genre for its readership, the detective novel promises the disruption and subsequent restoration of order in societies tarnished by disillusionment which hope for a better future. This book takes as its focus examples of detective fiction from Cuba and Mexico during or in the aftermath of huge social upheaval (the Special Period and the War on Drugs), analyzing representations of sexualities, bodies, and the genre itself. Through an investigation of novels by Leonardo Padura and Amir Valle of Cuba, and Bef and Rogelio Guedea of Mexico, this work investigates increasingly fluid sexualities and bodies in challenging examples of metaphysical detective fiction, a particularly anxious subgenre which challenges both the structures and limits of the detective novel and the reader’s understanding of true and false and right and wrong, representative of troubling periods of severe social disruption for Cuba and Mexico.

The Mexican Filmography, 1916 through 2001
The Mexican Filmography, 1916 through 2001

Author: David E. Wilt

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2024-10-17

Total Pages: 785

ISBN-13: 1476604304

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Mexican cinema has largely been overlooked by international film scholars because of a lack of English-language information and the fact that Spanish-language information was difficult to find and often out of date. This comprehensive filmography helps fill the need. Arranged by year of release and then by title, the filmography contains entries that include basic information (film and translated title, production company, genre, director, cast), a plot summary, and additional information about the film. Inclusion criteria: a film must be a Mexican production or co-production, feature length (one hour or more, silent films excepted), fictional (documentaries and compilation films are not included unless the topic relates to Mexican cinema; some docudramas and films with recreated or staged scenes are included), and theatrically released or intended for theatrical release.

Modern Mexican Culture
Modern Mexican Culture

Author: Stuart A. Day

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2017-10-31

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0816534268

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This collection of essays presents a key idea or event in the making of modern Mexico through the lenses of art and history--Provided by publisher.

Artful Assassins
Artful Assassins

Author: Fernando Fabio Sanchez

Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press

Published: 2010-11-29

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0826517285

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The grim role of violence in shaping modern Mexican identity

Marx and Freud in Latin America
Marx and Freud in Latin America

Author: Bruno Bosteels

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2012-08-21

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1844677559

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This book assesses the untimely relevance of Marx and Freud for Latin America, thinkers alien to the region who became an inspiration to its beleaguered activists, intellectuals, writers and artists during times of political and cultural oppression. Bruno Bosteels presents ten case studies arguing that art and literature—the novel, poetry, theatre, film—more than any militant tract or theoretical essay, can give us a glimpse into Marxism and psychoanalysis, not so much as sciences of history or of the unconscious, respectively, but rather as two intricately related modes of understanding the formation of subjectivity.

Contemporary Authors New Revision
Contemporary Authors New Revision

Author: John D. Jorgenson

Publisher: Contemporary Authors New Revis

Published: 1997-08

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 9780787611996

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This volume of Contemporary Authors(R) New Revision Series brings you up-to-date information on approximately 250 writers. Editors have scoured dozens of leading journals, magazines, newspapers and online sources in search of the latest news and criticism. Writers appearing in this volume include: Shana Alexander Ngugi Wa Thiongo Richard Rhodes Audrey Thomas

Los fantasmas de la Soledad
Los fantasmas de la Soledad

Author: Yankuik Itzaé

Publisher: Editorial Independiente

Published: 2024-04-09

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13:

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Narracion del género realismo mágico con tintes existencialistas. En dónde el protagonista, sumido en la marginación social, explora el sin sentido de la vida material y la búsqueda de la verdad espiritual que da razón de ser a la existencia. La respuesta al papel que desempeñamos en el universo, al significado de la vida, y la armonía universal emergen como un secreto casi sagrado entre el lodo de una sociedad perdida y podrida. Y qué, sin embargo, al ser alcanzado, no exonera del sufrimiento, combustible necesario para la trascendencia del ser. Una historia tal vez trágica, pero a la vez refrescante para el alma. Cuyo mensaje acompañará a los que, solitarios, caminan sin rumbo, a pasos ciegos, en la oscuridad de la vida.

Hispanic Writers
Hispanic Writers

Author: Bryan Ryan

Publisher: Gale Cengage

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13:

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Contains more than four hundred entries on twentieth-century Hispanic writers, all originally written or updated for this volume.