| From Revolution to Migration: A Study of Contemporary Cuban and Cuban American Crime Fiction Contributor(s): Canaparo, Claudio (Editor), Oakley, Helen (Author) |
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ISBN: 3039110217 ISBN-13: 9783039110216 Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis OUR PRICE: $70.02 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | European - Spanish & Portuguese |
| Dewey: 813.087 |
| LCCN: 2011034262 |
| Series: Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas |
| Physical Information: 186 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book focuses on Cuban and Cuban-American crime fiction of the 1990s and early twenty-first century. Contemporary authors, writing in both English and Spanish, have created new hybrid forms of the crime fiction genre that explore the problematic cultural interaction between Cuba and the United States. Through an analysis of the work of writers such as Leonardo Padura Fuentes, Jos Latour and Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, the author investigates issues which include the oppression of the individual by the state within Cuba, constructions of masculinity and femininity, and the problems facing Cuban immigrants entering the United States. The author demonstrates how contemporary writers have been influenced both by the American hard-boiled crime fiction genre and by the legacy of the socialist detective fiction that was promoted in Cuba by the Castro regime in the 1970s. By focusing on works produced both within and outside of Cuba, the book taps into wider debates concerning the concept of post-nationality. The cultural fluidity that characterizes these new variants of crime fiction calls into question traditional boundaries between national literatures and cultures. |