Contemporary Hispanic Crime Fiction: A Transatlantic Discourse on Urban Violence (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780230607972)

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.

Author: G. Close
ISBN-10: 0230607977
ISBN-13: 9780230607972
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2011
Pages: 230
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.55h x 6.28w x 0.66d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 12/12/2008 pg. 24