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Author : Paco Ignacio Taibo, II
Release : 1994-04
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 141/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Amorosos Fantasmas by : Paco Ignacio Taibo, II
Download or read book Amorosos Fantasmas written by Paco Ignacio Taibo, II. This book was released on 1994-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shevon Porter
Release : 2014
Genre : Mexican literature
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Book Rating : 245/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis "Amorous Ghosts" by Paco Ignacio Taibo II by : Shevon Porter
Download or read book "Amorous Ghosts" by Paco Ignacio Taibo II written by Shevon Porter. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis is a translation into English of Paco Ignacio Taibo II's Mexican detective novel, Amorosos fantasmas. The approach used in translating was in line with Lawrence Venuti's concept of foreignization. This approach was employed in favor of a more common style of domestication. Foreignization allows the translated text to retain some linguistic and cultural elements that are important or distinctive in the source text. In doing so, it evokes a feeling of foreignness. The reader of this translation may feel aware that he or she is reading a book that was not originally written in English; it is intentionally less fluent than a domesticated translation would be.
Author : William J. Nichols
Release : 2011
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 40X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Transatlantic Mysteries by : William J. Nichols
Download or read book Transatlantic Mysteries written by William J. Nichols. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transatlantic Mysteries presents a comparative study that brings together authors Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán --from two specific political contexts: post-1968 Mexico and post-Franco Spain-- who both work in one specific genre--"noir" detective fiction. In this so called age of globalization, Spain and Mexico have witnessed an explosion in the production of "noir" detective fiction which these authors choose purposefully in order to infiltrate the market with formulaic "popular" literature while simultaneously critiquing the effects of the neoliberal strategies embraced by their countries. By locating themselves at the crossroads where literature meets the market, they not only underscore the effects of capital onliterary and cultural production but also explore the possibility for their writing to resist the influences of capital and question the role of an intellectual in an era of globalization. At the core of their writing Taibo and Vázquez Montalbánexamine the revolutionary possibilities of literature and popular culture to offer a new kind of Marxist project that revitalizes the Left by redefining the role of socially engaged literature in a globalized landscape.
Author : Stuart A. Day
Release : 2017-10-31
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 268/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Modern Mexican Culture by : Stuart A. Day
Download or read book Modern Mexican Culture written by Stuart A. Day. This book was released on 2017-10-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays presents a key idea or event in the making of modern Mexico through the lenses of art and history--Provided by publisher.
Author : Ailsa Peate
Release : 2024-09-25
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 256/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Subverting Sex, Gender, and Genre in Cuban and Mexican Detective Fiction by : Ailsa Peate
Download or read book Subverting Sex, Gender, and Genre in Cuban and Mexican Detective Fiction written by Ailsa Peate. This book was released on 2024-09-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The presence of bodies and sex in detective fiction has been a long-term feature of this internationally popular genre. Titillation is at the centre of narratives reliant upon discovery and revelation: motives and criminals are slowly revealed, along with sexualized and violated bodies – from femmes fatales to the corpses of victims. A satisfying, gratifying genre for its readership, the detective novel promises the disruption and subsequent restoration of order in societies tarnished by disillusionment which hope for a better future. This book takes as its focus examples of detective fiction from Cuba and Mexico during or in the aftermath of huge social upheaval (the Special Period and the War on Drugs), analyzing representations of sexualities, bodies, and the genre itself. Through an investigation of novels by Leonardo Padura and Amir Valle of Cuba, and Bef and Rogelio Guedea of Mexico, this work investigates increasingly fluid sexualities and bodies in challenging examples of metaphysical detective fiction, a particularly anxious subgenre which challenges both the structures and limits of the detective novel and the reader’s understanding of true and false and right and wrong, representative of troubling periods of severe social disruption for Cuba and Mexico.
