Latin American Detectives against Power
Individualism, the State, and Failure in Crime Fiction| By: | Fabricio Tocco |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury USA |
| Print ISBN: | 9781793651648 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781793651655 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2022 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.