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- Publication Name
- Latin American Detectives Against Power : Individualism, the State, and Failure in Crime Fiction
- Title
- Latin American Detectives against Power
- Book Title
- Latin American Detectives against Power
- Subtitle
- Individualism, the State, and Failure in Crime Fiction
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 1793651647
- EAN
- 9781793651648
- ISBN
- 9781793651648
- Publisher
- Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
- Genre
- Fiction
- Subject
- Literary Criticism
- Release Date
- 15/04/2022
- Release Year
- 2022
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 8.9in
- Item Width
- 6.3in
- Item Weight
- 19.4 Oz
- Language
- English
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Type
- Textbook
- Number of Pages
- 248 Pages
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This book examines how Latin American detective stories portray individualism and the state through the figures of the private eye and the police. Fabricio Tocco argues that these portrayals constitute a far more radical critique than the one developed by the Anglo-American canon, culminating in a transnational "poetics of failure" rooted in dissatisfaction with the neoliberal state.
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Publisher
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
ISBN-10
1793651647
ISBN-13
9781793651648
eBay Product ID (ePID)
9057275129
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Latin American Detectives Against Power : Individualism, the State, and Failure in Crime Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2022
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
248 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.9in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
19.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pq7082.D48t63 2022
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Fabricio Tocco's Latin American Detectives against Power is a magnificent and ambitious work of literary analysis and cultural critique. It is essential reading for anybody interested in the history of the detective genre in Latin America. Moreover, it is also a case study in cultural translation, influence, and resistance, as Tocco shows how and why Latin American authors--from Borges to Bolaño, Ricardo Piglia to Rubem Fonseca--write both within and against a literary tradition imported from Britain and the United States. Finally, and most significantly, this book's careful and sensitive close readings of individual texts open up to a general theory of the workings of the state in the Southern Cone and elsewhere. Tocco vindicates detective fiction as political philosophy, as a vector through which, in the aftermath of state violence and neoliberalism, Latin Americans have experimented in new ways to think and practice community., Incomparable Realms is a major work of interdisciplinary scholarship that grapples with one of the most intractable problems that has dominated our understanding of the cultural, political and intellectual foundations of early modern Spain, namely the complex relationship that existed between the material and the spiritual, the constant and the transient, the quantifiable and the indeterminate, concepts that were both antithetical to one another and inextricably entwined. The quest to disentangle this binary framework lies at the heart of Jeremy Robbins' study in which he draws upon his wide expertise in the fields of Spanish literature and the visual arts, as well as mystical poetry and polemical writing, to unlock the essential dynamic, which he defines as 'the incommensurability of the human and the divine' (28), that characterized Golden-Age Spain., Hardly ever, readings of Latin American detective fiction do not succumb the temptation of a trite cliché: demonizing social crime. Tocco manages to avoid these and other traps, such as reading the South through the Global North lens. Quite the opposite, he thinks from our complex Latin American perspective. He engages with political and literary theory, standing always on the shoulders of our literary and critical traditions--from Borges, to Mempo Giardinelli and Ángel Rama. It is from this position that he opens a dialogue with Roberto Esposito's philosophical contributions. Far from being mechanistic, this dialogue is original and dynamic. Tocco engages with detective fiction through Esposito's ideas of immunitas and communitas. He does so by examining the work of three crucial authors: The Argentine Ricardo Piglia, the Chilean Roberto Bolaño, and the Brazilian Rubem Ronseca. In their detective stories, Tocco discerns the fractured communities of Latin America as well as the impossibility of a real choice between individualism and state. Thus, he re-reads the Anglo-American canon, where that choice is never truly questioned. Hence the words alluded to in the title of the book, as it examines the Anglo-American models' failure to offer a genuine critique of the state. At the same time, this book reclaims the paradoxical and brilliant subversion of the canon in Latin American literature, which becomes a new canon--a new tradition of failure.
Table of Content
Chapter 1: The Anglo-American Detective: Individualism against the State Chapter 2: Argentina: The State against Individualism Chapter 3: Chile: Individualism within the State Chapter 4: Brazil: The State against the State Chapter 5: Coda: The Mexican-American Border Seen from Chilean Eyes Chapter 6: Final Thoughts: From Failure to Community
Topic
Caribbean & Latin American, Mystery & Detective
Lccn
2021-062033
Dewey Decimal
863.0872090098
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism
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