Transatlantic Mysteries

2011 Fiction

Author : William J. Nichols
Release : 2011
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 40X/5 ( reviews)

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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.

The Transatlantic Conspiracy

2016-06-14 Young Adult Fiction

Author : G. D. Falksen
Release : 2016-06-14
Genre : Young Adult Fiction
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Book Rating : 183/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Transatlantic Conspiracy written by G. D. Falksen. This book was released on 2016-06-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the dawn of a reimagined 20th century, one girl must become the reluctant symbol of a new world. The year is 1908. Seventeen-year-old Rosalind Wallace’s blissful stay in England with her best friend, Cecily de Vere, ends abruptly when her father books Rosalind on the maiden voyage of his fabulous Transatlantic Express, the world’s first railroad to travel under the sea. Rosalind is furious. But lucky for her, Cecily and her handsome older brother, Charles, volunteer to accompany her home. But when Charles disappears and Cecily and her housemaid, Doris, are found stabbed to death in their state room, Rosalind finds herself trapped undersea, in a deadly fight to clear herself of her friend’s murder and to thwart a sinister enemy.

Transatlantic Tragedy

2019-06-13

Author : Hope Callaghan
Release : 2019-06-13
Genre :
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Book Rating : 471/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Transatlantic Tragedy written by Hope Callaghan. This book was released on 2019-06-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Siren of the Seas" sets sail for the much anticipated transatlantic repositioning cruise to the British Isles. It's smooth sailing until someone falls overboard. Millie jumps in head first to determine if the passenger's death was an accident, suicide or murder. Read all of Hope Callaghan's Cozy Mysteries FREE with Kindle Unlimited! "Transatlantic Tragedy," is Book 16 in the Cruise Ship Christian Cozy Mysteries SeriesBONUS: Recipe Included!

The Noir Atlantic

2011 Literary Criticism

Author : Pim Higginson
Release : 2011
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 901/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Noir Atlantic written by Pim Higginson. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Noir Atlantic follows the influence of African American author Chester Himes on Francophone African crime fiction. In 1953, Himes emigrated to Paris; he struggled there, just as he had in the United States. In 1957, his luck changed: the famous French Série noire brought out the first installment of his "Harlem crime series, La reine des pommes. Suddenly, he was a household name in France. Later, he would also have a significant influence on Francophone African writers; for them, Himes's blend of absurdist humor and violence offered an alternative to a high literary paradigm implanted during the colonial era. Likewise, his heterogeneous identity as American, black, and a writer of "French" bestsellers modeled an escape from the centripetal pull of the Métropole. Starting with Abasse Ndione's depictions of Senegal's marijuana-smoking subculture in La Vie en spirale (1982) and ending with Mongo Beti's 2001 Branle-bas en noir et blanc, set in Yaoundé, Cameroon, Francophone African crime fiction rejected French criteria of literary success; it embraced a new postcolonial aesthetic that emphasized entertaining the reader while making a living. The Noir Atlantic demonstrates why turning to what this study calls a "frivolous literary" mode represented a profound shift in perspective that anticipated more recent developments such as littérature monde.

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