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Charlotte Lange and Ailsa Peate, editors. Crime Scenes: Latin American Crime Fiction from the 1960s to the 2010s

Charlotte Lange and Ailsa Peate, editors. Crime Scenes: Latin American Crime Fiction from the... BOOK REVIEWS Charlotte Lange and Ailsa Peate, editors. Crime Scenes: Latin American Crime Fiction from the 1960s to the 2010s. Peter Lang, 2019. US$ 45.95; 9781787074361(PDF); 9781787074378 (ePUB); 9781787074385 (MOBI); 9781787074354 (print, softcover); 244 pages. Reviewed by Linda Ledford-Miller Crime fiction has a long history in Latin America, beginning in the 1940s with the fiction of the Argentine, Jorge Luis Borges, and his collaborator, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and in the late 1950s in Brazil. Variously termed novela negra, género negro, novela detectivesca,or novela policíaca, roughly corresponding respectively to ‘hard-boiled’, ‘detective novel’, and ‘police procedural’, crime fiction in Latin America rarely ventures into the British puzzle or cozy narrative. The text provides an introduction to the tradition and history of crime fiction in Latin America, its relationship to the hard-boiled tradition of the United States, and an overview of production in Mexico, Cuba, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, and Venezuela. The editors then stake out their territory: the crime scene itself. Crime scene here is not simply the scene of the crime, the locale where the victim is discovered, but rather the extended crime scene of ‘collective culpability’, which may involve state institutions or some aspect of society itself, and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Crime Fiction Studies Edinburgh University Press

Charlotte Lange and Ailsa Peate, editors. Crime Scenes: Latin American Crime Fiction from the 1960s to the 2010s

Ledford-Miller, Linda
Crime Fiction Studies , Volume 3 (2): 3 – Sep 1, 2022
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BOOK REVIEWS Charlotte Lange and Ailsa Peate, editors. Crime Scenes: Latin American Crime Fiction from the 1960s to the 2010s. Peter Lang, 2019. US$ 45.95; 9781787074361(PDF); 9781787074378 (ePUB); 9781787074385 (MOBI); 9781787074354 (print, softcover); 244 pages. Reviewed by Linda Ledford-Miller Crime fiction has a long history in Latin America, beginning in the 1940s with the fiction of the Argentine, Jorge Luis Borges, and his collaborator, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and in the late 1950s in Brazil. Variously termed novela negra, género negro, novela detectivesca,or novela policíaca, roughly corresponding respectively to ‘hard-boiled’, ‘detective novel’, and ‘police procedural’, crime fiction in Latin America rarely ventures into the British puzzle or cozy narrative. The text provides an introduction to the tradition and history of crime fiction in Latin America, its relationship to the hard-boiled tradition of the United States, and an overview of production in Mexico, Cuba, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, and Venezuela. The editors then stake out their territory: the crime scene itself. Crime scene here is not simply the scene of the crime, the locale where the victim is discovered, but rather the extended crime scene of ‘collective culpability’, which may involve state institutions or some aspect of society itself, and

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Crime Fiction Studies – Edinburgh University Press

Published: Sep 1, 2022

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