Antiheroes: Mexico and Its Detective Novel
- ISBN-10
- 0838636446
- ISBN-13
- 9780838636442
- Category
- Detective and mystery stories, Mexican
- Pages
- 177
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
- Author
- Ilan Stavans
Description
Stavans's overall argument is that, in a national arena where moral decadence and political corruption prevail, the detective genre has been forced to embrace the hard-boiled model of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, rather than exploring its links to the more high-brow, sophisticated British tradition of Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. An enlightening treatise on parody as a literary device, this book is a fiesta that students of Latin American literature in particular, and fans of the art of slighting in general, will not want to miss.
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Other editions
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- 2011-07-26
- 125 pages
- Ebook
- BenBella Books, Inc.