Violence and victimhood in Hispanic crime fiction
Subtitle: essays on contemporary works
By: edited by Shalisa M. Collins, Renée W. Craig-Odders and Marcella L. Paul
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780786499083
Subjects: Spanish fiction; Spanish Detective and mystery stories; Latin American fiction; Violence in literature; Latin American Detective and mystery stories; History and criticism; Crime in literature
Description: "At the heart of crime fiction is an investigation into an act of violence. Studies of the genre have generally centered on the relationship between the criminal and the investigator. Focusing on contemporary crime fiction from the Spanish-speaking world, this collection of new essays explores the role of the victim"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface - Introduction / Shalisa M. Collins, Renée W. Craig-Odders, and Marcella L. Paul - Spain. Expendable commodities : women and children as victims of the sex trade in contemporary Spanish crime fiction / Renée W. Craig-Odders ; Susana Hernández's crime fiction and resolution through resistance / Nina L. Molinaro ; Dying like a man : feminization and castration in two novels by Lorenzo Silva / Elena Iglesias-Villamel ; Violence as representative of societal ethos in Arturo Pérez-Reverte's El francotirador paciente / Jeffrey Oxford - Latin America. Who is the victim here? : the city, the corpse and genre in the crime novels of Ramón Díaz Eterović / Shalisa M. Collins ; Crime and punishment : from victims to avengers in Eduardo Sacheri's La noche de la Usina / Carolina Miranda ; Bodies and other texts : censoring the victim in Martín Solares's Los minutos negros / Marcella L. Paul ; The lost daughters of Mexico : crime and impunity in David Toscana's Los Puentes de Königsberg / Judy Cervantes ; Reimaging the novela negra : the victim's perspective in "El chico sucio" / Gizella Meneses.