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Transatlantic Mysteries
Crime, Culture, and Capital in the 'Noir Novels' of Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
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2010
Summary
Transatlantic Mysteries presents a comparative study that brings together authors Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán —from two specific political contexts: post-1968 Mexico and post-Franco Spain— who both work in one specific genre—'noir' detective fiction. In this so called age of globalization, Spain and Mexico have witnessed an explosion in the production of 'noir' detective fiction which these authors choose purposefully in order to infiltrate the market with formulaic 'popular' literature while simultaneously critiquing the effects of the neoliberal strategies embraced by their countries. By locating themselves at the crossroads where literature meets the market, they not only underscore the effects of capital on literary and cultural production but also explore the possibility for their writing to resist the influences of capital and question the role of an intellectual in an era of globalization. At the core of their writing Taibo and Vázquez Montalbán examine the revolutionary possibilities of literature and popular culture to offer a new kind of Marxist project that revitalizes the Left by redefining the role of socially engaged literature in a globalized landscape.
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Edition
1/2010
Copyright Year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-1-61148-040-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-61148-041-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
206
Product Type
Monograph
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 11 - 30
1. Social Crisis, Modernization, and the Emergence of the “Novela Negra” in Mexico and Spain No access Pages 31 - 48
2. Reading and (Re) Writing Culture: Subversion of Models, Models of Subversion No access Pages 49 - 96
3. “Poisonville” Reincarnated: Modernization, Metropolis, and Spaces of Self-Representation No access Pages 97 - 118
4. Memories of Underdevelopment: Resurrecting Revolution No access Pages 119 - 138
5. Crimes against Culture: Anti-Imperialism in Taibo and Vázquez Montalbán No access Pages 139 - 167
