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

Tocco, Fabricio

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

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2022

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Tocco, Fabricio

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Lexington Books

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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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