Latin American Detectives against Power: Individualism, the State, and Failure in Crime Fiction

Latin American Detectives against Power: Individualism, the State, and Failure in Crime Fiction

Author
Fabricio Tocco
Publisher
Lexington Books
Language
English
Edition
1
Year
2022
Page
235
ISBN
9781793651648,9781793651655
File Type
pdf
File Size
1.5 MiB

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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