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Detective Fiction in Cuban Society and Culture

Author : Stephen Wilkinson
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039106981
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Detective Fiction in Cuban Society and Culture written by Stephen Wilkinson and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Cuban society through a study of its detective fiction and more particularly contemporary Cuban society through the novels of the author and critic, Leonardo Padura Fuentes. The author traces the development of Cuban detective writing in the light of the work of twentieth century Western European literary critics and philosophers including Raymond Williams, Antonio Gramsci, Terry Eagleton, Roland Barthes, Jean Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault, Jean François Lyotard and Jean Baudrillard in order to gain a better understanding of the social and historical context in which this genre emerged. The analysis includes discussion of the broader philosophical, political and historical issues raised by the Cuban revolution. The book concludes that the study of this popular genre in Cuba is of crucial importance to the scholar who wishes to reach as full an understanding of the social dynamics within that society as possible.

Detective Fiction in Cuban Society and Culture

Author : Stephen Henry Wilkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book Detective Fiction in Cuban Society and Culture written by Stephen Henry Wilkinson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Crimes Against the State, Crimes Against Persons

Author : Persephone Braham
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452906256
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Crimes Against the State, Crimes Against Persons written by Persephone Braham and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Transatlantic Mysteries

Author : William J. Nichols
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 161148040X
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Transatlantic Mysteries written by William J. Nichols and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011 with total page 207 pages. 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.

Dialogic Aspects in the Cuban Novel of the 1990s

Author : Ángela Dorado-Otero
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 185566271X
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (556 download)

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Book Synopsis Dialogic Aspects in the Cuban Novel of the 1990s by : Ángela Dorado-Otero

Download or read book Dialogic Aspects in the Cuban Novel of the 1990s written by Ángela Dorado-Otero and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author analyses six novels of the "boom" in Cuban fiction of the 1990s that subvert homogenized views of Cuban identity.

Contemporary Hispanic Crime Fiction

Author : G. Close
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230614639
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Hispanic Crime Fiction written by G. Close and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 of literary forms and markets. It centers on the inscription of urban space in novels set in the metropolitan centers of the Hispanic World: Mexico City, Bogota, Buenos Aires, and Barcelona.

Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Fall 2016)

Author : Elizabeth Foxwell
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147662609X
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Book Synopsis Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Fall 2016) by : Elizabeth Foxwell

Download or read book Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Fall 2016) written by Elizabeth Foxwell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over two decades, Clues has included the best scholarship on mystery and detective fiction. With a combination of academic essays and nonfiction book reviews, it covers all aspects of mystery and detective fiction material in print, television and movies. As the only American scholarly journal on mystery fiction, Clues is essential reading for literature and film students and researchers; popular culture aficionados; librarians; and mystery authors, fans and critics around the globe.

Cuba

Author : Ted A. Henken
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 727 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Cuba written by Ted A. Henken and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by some of the best-known independent scholars, citizen journalists, cyber-activists, and bloggers living in Cuba today, this book presents a critical, complete, and unbiased overview of contemporary Cuba. In this era of ever-increasing globalization and communication across national borders, Cuba remains an isolated island oddly out of step with the rest of the world. And yet, Cuba is beginning to evolve via the important if still insufficient changes instituted by Raul Castro, who became president in 2008. This book supplies a uniquely independent, accurate, and critical perspective in order to evaluate these changes in the context of the island's rich and complex history and culture. Organized into seven topical chapters that address geography, history, politics and government, economics, society, culture, and contemporary issues, readers will gain a broad, insightful understanding of one of the most unusual, fascinating, and often misunderstood nations in the Western Hemisphere.

Community and Culture in Post-Soviet Cuba

Author : Guillermina De Ferrari
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131781343X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Community and Culture in Post-Soviet Cuba written by Guillermina De Ferrari and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the globalization of Cuban culture, along with the bankruptcy of the state, partly modified the terms of intellectual engagement. However, no significant change took place at the political level. In Community and Culture in Post-Soviet Cuba, De Ferrari looks into the extraordinary survival of the Revolution by focusing on the personal, political and aesthetic social pacts that determined the configuration of the socialist state. Through close critical readings of a representative set of contemporary Cuban novels and works of visual art, this book argues that ethics and gender, rather than ideology, account for the intellectuals’ fidelity to the Revolution. Community and Culture does three things: it demonstrates that masculine sociality is the key to understanding the longevity of Cuba’s socialist regime; it examines the sociology of cultural administration of intellectual labor in Cuba; and it maps the emergent ethical and aesthetic paradigms that allow Cuban intellectuals to envision alternative forms of community and civil society.

Heretics

Author : Leonardo Padura
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374714282
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Book Synopsis Heretics by : Leonardo Padura

Download or read book Heretics written by Leonardo Padura and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Padura’s Heretics spans and defies literary categories . . . ingenious." —Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air A sweeping novel of art theft, anti-Semitism, contemporary Cuba, and crime from a renowned Cuban author, Heretics is Leonardo Padura's greatest detective work yet. In 1939, the Saint Louis sails from Hamburg into Havana’s port with hundreds of Jewish refugees seeking asylum from the Nazi regime. From the docks, nine-year-old Daniel Kaminsky watches as the passengers, including his mother, father, and sister, become embroiled in a fiasco of Cuban corruption. But the Kaminskys have a treasure that they hope will save them: a small Rembrandt portrait of Christ. Yet six days later the vessel is forced to leave the harbor with the family, bound for the horrors of Europe. The Kaminskys, along with their priceless heirloom, disappear. Nearly seven decades later, the Rembrandt reappears in an auction house in London, prompting Daniel’s son to travel to Cuba to track down the story of his family’s lost masterpiece. He hires the down-on-his-luck private detective Mario Conde, and together they navigate a web of deception and violence in the morally complex city of Havana. In Heretics, Leonardo Padura takes us from the tenements and beaches of Cuba to Rembrandt’s gloomy studio in seventeenth-century Amsterdam, telling the story of people forced to choose between the tenets of their faith and the realities of the world, between their personal desires and the demands of their times. A grand detective story and a moving historical drama, Padura’s novel is as compelling, mysterious, and enduring as the painting at its center.

Caribbean Food Cultures

Author : Wiebke Beushausen
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839426928
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Caribbean Food Cultures written by Wiebke Beushausen and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: »Caribbean Food Cultures« approaches the matter of food from the perspectives of anthropology, sociology, cultural and literary studies. Its strong interdisciplinary focus provides new insights into symbolic and material food practices beyond eating, drinking, cooking, or etiquette. The contributors discuss culinary aesthetics and neo/colonial gazes on the Caribbean in literary documents, audiovisual media, and popular images. They investigate the negotiation of communities and identities through the preparation, consumption, and commodification of »authentic« food. Furthermore, the authors emphasize the influence of underlying socioeconomic power relations for the reinvention of Caribbean and Western identities in the wake of migration and transnationalism. The anthology features contributions by renowned scholars such as Rita De Maeseneer and Fabio Parasecoli who read Hispano-Caribbean literatures and popular culture through the lens of food studies.

Handbook on Cuban History, Literature, and the Arts

Author : Mauricio A. Font
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315525003
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Handbook on Cuban History, Literature, and the Arts written by Mauricio A. Font and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2016. If scholarship on Cuban studies after the 1959 revolution focused on the historical and cultural aspects of the construction of a socialist order, the post-1989 crisis of socialism in Central and Eastern Europe raised questions about the island’s state as a socialist model. The scholarly gaze gradually began to focus on possibilities for alternative transformations at various levels of social life rather than on the deepening of traditional twentieth-century state socialism. This volume explores the newly emergent themes and debates about Cuban society and history.

Homosexuality and Invisibility in Revolutionary Cuba

Author : María Encarnación Martín López
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1855662884
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Homosexuality and Invisibility in Revolutionary Cuba written by María Encarnación Martín López and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers alternative insights into the complex relationship between politics and intelligentsia in revolutionary Cuba.

Brown Gumshoes

Author : Ralph E. Rodriguez
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292774559
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Brown Gumshoes written by Ralph E. Rodriguez and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-03-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Modern Language Association Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies, 2006 Popular fiction, with its capacity for diversion, can mask important cultural observations within a framework that is often overlooked in the academic world. Works thought to be merely "escapist" can often be more seriously mined for revelations regarding the worlds they portray, especially those of the disenfranchised. As detective fiction has slowly earned critical respect, more authors from minority groups have chosen it as their medium. Chicana/o authors, previously reluctant to write in an underestimated genre that might further marginalize them, have only entered the world of detective fiction in the past two decades. In this book, the first comprehensive study of Chicano/a detective fiction, Ralph E. Rodriguez examines the recent contributions to the genre by writers such as Rudolfo Anaya, Lucha Corpi, Rolando Hinojosa, Michael Nava, and Manuel Ramos. Their works reveal the struggles of Chicanas/os with feminism, homosexuality, familia, masculinity, mysticism, the nationalist subject, and U.S.-Mexico border relations. He maintains that their novels register crucial new discourses of identity, politics, and cultural citizenship that cannot be understood apart from the historical instability following the demise of the nationalist politics of the Chicana/o movement of the 1960s and 1970s. In contrast to that time, when Chicanas/os sought a unified Chicano identity in order to effect social change, the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s have seen a disengagement from these nationalist politics and a new trend toward a heterogeneous sense of self. The detective novel and its traditional focus on questions of knowledge and identity turned out to be the perfect medium in which to examine this new self.

Dictator's Dreamscape

Author : Joseph R. Hartman
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822986493
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Dictator's Dreamscape written by Joseph R. Hartman and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Hartman focuses on the public works campaign of Cuban president, and later dictator, Gerardo Machado. Political histories often condemn Machado as a US-puppet dictator, overthrown in a labor revolt and popular revolution in 1933. Architectural histories tend to catalogue his regime’s public works as derivatives of US and European models. Dictator’s Dreamscape reassesses the regime’s public works program as a highly nuanced visual project embedded in centuries-old representations of Cuba alongside wider debates on the nature of art and architecture in general, especially in regards to globalization and the spread of US-style consumerism. The cultural production overseen by Machado gives a fresh and greatly broadened perspective on his regime’s accomplishments, failures, and crimes. The book addresses the regime’s architectural program as a visual and architectonic response to debates over Cuban national identity, US imperialism, and Machado’s own cult of personality.

Food, Texts, and Cultures in Latin America and Spain

Author : Rafael Climent-Espino
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 0826504205
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Food, Texts, and Cultures in Latin America and Spain written by Rafael Climent-Espino and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A foundational text in the emerging field of Latin American and Iberian food studies

Cuban Studies 38

Author : Louis A. Perez, Jr.
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822971127
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Cuban Studies 38 written by Louis A. Perez, Jr. and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2008-01-27 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuban Studies 38 examines topics that include: liberalism emanating from Havana in the early 1800s; Jose Martí's theory of psychocoloniality; the relationship between sugar planters, insurgents, and the Spanish military during the revolution; new aesthetics in Cuban cinema, the “recovery” of poet José Angel Buesa, and the meaning of Elián Gonzales in the context of life in Miami.