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Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-03-20 - Publisher: McFarland

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The image of the hard-boiled private investigator from gritty pulp fiction, a terse and mysterious figure, has become increasingly universal as the detective no
Spanish and Latin American Women’s Crime Fiction in the New Millennium
Language: en
Pages: 179
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-11-06 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Crime fiction written by women in Spain and Latin America since the late 1980s has been successful in shifting attention to crimes often overlooked by their mal
Contemporary Hispanic Crime Fiction
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: G. Close
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-30 - Publisher: Springer

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This study examines representations of the cityscape and of a so-called "new urban violence" in both detective-centered and detectiveless crime fiction produced
Violence and Victimhood in Hispanic Crime Fiction
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Authors: Shalisa M. Collins
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At the heart of crime fiction is an investigation into an act of violence. Studies of the genre have generally centered on the relationship between the criminal
Subverting Sex, Gender, and Genre in Cuban and Mexican Detective Fiction
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The presence of bodies and sex in detective fiction has been a long-term feature of this internationally popular genre. Titillation is at the centre of narrativ