Contemporary Hispanic Crime Fiction: A Transatlantic Discourse on Urban Violence

by Glen S. Close

This study examines representations of the cityscape and of a so-called "new urban violence" in both detective-centered and detectiveless crime fiction produced in Spanish America and Spain during recent decades. It documents the emergence and permutations of this production as an index not only of local perceptions of contemporary urban experience and of a contemporary urban "ecology of fear," but also as a transnational index of the globalization...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230607977
• ISBN13: 9780230607972
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 8.6"