Detective fiction in Cuban society and culture
Stephen Wilkinson.
Bok Engelsk 2006 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Oxford ; New York : : Peter Lang, , c2006.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (317 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents 5; Acknowledgements 7; Introduction: Why study detective fiction? 9; 1. The relationship between literature and society: a theoretical framework 19; 2. Nationalism, Marxism and sacrifice: Cuban revolutionary ideology and the Cuban state 33; 3. Ideology and intervention: understanding Cuban revolutionary cultural policy 53; 4. Bad black men and comical Chinese: the Cuban detective narrative 1915-1959 81; 5. Justice beyond legality: the early development of the revolutionary Cuban crime novel 109. - 6. Socialist heroes and capitalist villains: the Cuban revolutionary crime genre 1971-1991 1237 The crash of the 1990's and the challenge to modernity: how crime narrative changes to 'fit' the times 159; 8. Irony, paradox and temporality: Sartrean morality in Pasado perfecto 189; 9. Critiques of sexual and political intolerance in the novel Máscaras and the film Fresa y chocolate 217; 10. From existentialism to postmodernity: the aesthetic of doubt in Vientos de cuaresma and Paisaje de otoño 251; Conclusion 283; Bibliography 289; Index 309
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| ISBN | 1-299-42806-1. - 3-0353-0366-5
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