{"product_id":"argentina-noir-cynthia-schmidt-cruz-9781438473031","title":"Argentina Noir: New Millennium Crime Novels in Buenos Aires","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn engaging and insightful guide to Argentine crime fiction since 2000.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eArgentina Noir\u003c\/i\u003e offers a guide to Argentine crime fiction, with a focus on works published since the year 2000. It argues that the \u003ci\u003enovela negra\u003c\/i\u003e, or crime novel, has become the favored genre for many writers to address the social malaise brought about by changes linked to globalization and market-driven economic policies. Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz presents close readings and original interpretations of eleven novels, all set in or around Buenos Aires, and explores the ways these texts adapt major motifs, figures, and literary techniques in Hispanic crime fiction in order to give voice to wide-ranging social critiques. Schmidt-Cruz addresses such topics as organized crime and institutional complicity, corruption during the presidency of Carlos Menem (1989-1999), terrorist attacks on Jewish institutions in Buenos Aires and the mysterious death of Alberto Nisman, and the winners and the losers of neoliberal structural changes. With a solid underpinning in sociological studies and criticism of the genre and its historical context, \u003ci\u003eArgentina Noir\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how these novels are renovating the genre to engage pressing issues confronting not only Argentina but also countries throughout Latin America and around the globe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1438473036\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781438473031\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 338\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2019","brand":"Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46838299820287,"sku":"9781438473031","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_847568af-88ee-4ee0-a00d-93432869adac.jpg?v=1746589400","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/argentina-noir-cynthia-schmidt-cruz-9781438473031","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}