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Latin American Detectives Against Power: Individualism, the State, and Failure in Crime Fiction
Author: Fabricio Tocco
Year: April 15, 2022
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.5 MB
Language: English
Year: April 15, 2022
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.5 MB
Language: English
This book examines how Latin American detective stories portray individualism and the state through the figures of the private eye and the police. Fabricio Tocco argues that these portrayals constitute a far more radical critique than the one developed by the Anglo-American canon, culminating in a transnational and "poetics of failure and " rooted in dissatisfaction with the neoliberal state.