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- Title
Latin American Detectives Against Power: Individualism, the State, and Failure in Crime Fiction by Fabricio Tocco (review).
- Authors
McLaughlin, Dave
- Abstract
In his focus on his authors' ongoing struggles with their increasingly problematic and less-than-useful Anglo-American inheritance, Tocco sheds brilliant light on a troublesome, failing, yet still-colonizing model of Western detective fiction in Latin America. Second, Tocco demonstrates how the generic conventions of Anglo-American detective fiction fail to provide an answer to the questions of the relationship between individuals and the state. In Latin American Detectives Against Power, Fabricio Tocco agrees that detective fiction has its roots in these Anglo-American Victorian middle-class stories of social order and control.
- Subjects
MYSTERY fiction; DETECTIVES; INDIVIDUALISM; ENGLISH fiction; REALIST fiction
- Publication
Journal of Latin American Geography, 2023, Vol 22, Issue 2, p247
- ISSN
1545-2476
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/lag.2023.a909096