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  title info:
    title: Subverting sex, gender, and gender, and genre in Cuban and Mexican detective fiction
  name:
    name part: Peate, Ailsa
    name part: 1988-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 234 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The presence of bodies and sex in detective fiction has been a long-term feature of this internationally popular genre. Titillation is at the center of narratives reliant upon discovery and revelation. Motives and criminals are slowly revealed, along with sexualized and violated bodies, from femmes fatales to the corpses of victims. A satisfying, gratifying genre for its readership, the detective novel promises the disruption and subsequent restoration of order in societies tarnished by disillusionment which hope for a better future. This book takes as its focus examples of detective fiction from Cuba and Mexico during or in the aftermath of huge social upheaval (the Special Period and the War on Drugs), analyzing representations of sexualities, bodies and the genre itself. Through an investigation of novels by Leonardo Padura and Amir Valle of Cuba and Bef and Rogelio Guedea of Mexico, this work investigates increasingly fluid sexualities and bodies in challenging examples of metaphysical detective fiction, a particularly anxious subgenre which challenges both the structures and limits of the detective novel and the reader’s understanding of true and false and right and wrong, representative of troubling periods of severe social disruption for Cuba and Mexico.
  note: Ailsa Peate.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-229) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Detective and mystery stories, Cuban
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Detective and mystery stories, Mexican
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Sex role in literature
  classification: PQ7082.D48 P43 2024
  classification: 863.08720906
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone cultures
  identifier: 1802078886
  identifier: 9781802078886
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 230913
    record change date: 20250820203409.5
    record identifier: in00005606358