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From Revolution to Migration

A Study of Contemporary Cuban and Cuban American Crime Fiction

by Helen Oakley (Author)
©2012 Monographs XIV, 186 Pages

Summary

This book focuses on Cuban and Cuban-American crime fiction of the 1990s and early twenty-first century. Contemporary authors, writing in both English and Spanish, have created new hybrid forms of the crime fiction genre that explore the problematic cultural interaction between Cuba and the United States. Through an analysis of the work of writers such as Leonardo Padura Fuentes, José Latour and Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, the author investigates issues which include the oppression of the individual by the state within Cuba, constructions of masculinity and femininity, and the problems facing Cuban immigrants entering the United States.
The author demonstrates how contemporary writers have been influenced both by the American hard-boiled crime fiction genre and by the legacy of the socialist detective fiction that was promoted in Cuba by the Castro regime in the 1970s. By focusing on works produced both within and outside of Cuba, the book taps into wider debates concerning the concept of post-nationality. The cultural fluidity that characterizes these new variants of crime fiction calls into question traditional boundaries between national literatures and cultures.

Details

Pages
XIV, 186
Publication Year
2012
ISBN (PDF)
9783035302318
ISBN (Softcover)
9783039110216
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0353-0231-8
Language
English
Publication date
2012 (February)
Keywords
problematic cultural interaction between Cuba and the United States problems facing Cuban immigrants entering the United States contemporary Cuban and Cuban-American crime fiction Leonardo Padura Fuentes, José Latour and Carolina García Aguilera
Published
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2012. XIV, 186 pp.
Product Safety
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Biographical notes

Helen Oakley (Author)

Helen Oakley was awarded her doctorate by the University of Nottingham for a thesis that was later published as The Recontextualization of William Faulkner in Latin American Fiction and Culture (2002). She is an associate lecturer in the arts at the Open University in the East Midlands.

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