Artful assassins
Subtitle: murder as art in modern Mexico
By: Fernando Fabio Sánchez ; translated from the Spanish by Stephen J. Clark.
Contributors: Clark, Stephen John, 1965-
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Nashville, Tenn
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780826517265
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, Mexican -- History and criticism; Murder in literature; Assassination in literature; National characteristics, Mexican, in literature; Literature and revolutions -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century; Detective and mystery films -- Mexico -- History and criticism; Murder in motion pictures; Mexico -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Before Mexican crime fiction: the death scene and the construction of post-revolutionary Mexico; title: Ensayo de un crimen and el hombre sin rostro: early critiques of nationalism during Mexico's transition to modernity; title: El complot mongol and la cabeza de la hidra: the era of latent national crisis; title: Cosa fecil, un asesino solitario, and amores perros: the age of national disintegration.