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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Nichols, William J., 1970-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lewisburg [Pa.] : Lanham, Md. : Bucknell University Press ; Rowman & Littlefield, ©2011.
Subjects:	Taibo, Paco Ignacio, > II, > 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.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
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.