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

Title
Transatlantic mysteries : crime, culture, and capital in the noir novels of Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán / William J. Nichols.
Author
Nichols, William J., 1970-
Publication
Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2011.

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Description
206 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • 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
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Call Number
JFE 11-1255
ISBN
  • 9781611480405 (cloth)
  • 161148040X (cloth)
  • 9781611480412 (electronic)
  • 1611480418 (electronic)
  • 9780838757727 (alk. paper)
  • 0838757723 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2010014054
OCLC
YBP 2010014054
Author
Nichols, William J., 1970-
Title
Transatlantic mysteries : crime, culture, and capital in the noir novels of Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán / William J. Nichols.
Imprint
Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2011.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 11-1255
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