The detective novel in Puerto Rico /
The Detective Novel in Puerto Rico is the first comprehensive book-length study in English of the detective novel on the island from its origins (1984) to the present (2024). It describes the historical events that served as catalysts and led to the inception of the genre on the island, as well as i...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2025.
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| Summary: | The Detective Novel in Puerto Rico is the first comprehensive book-length study in English of the detective novel on the island from its origins (1984) to the present (2024). It describes the historical events that served as catalysts and led to the inception of the genre on the island, as well as its subsequent development, from the 1984 publication of Wilfredo Mattos Cintrón’s El cerro de los buitres to the present. In the process, this study establishes a canon for the genre on the island over the last forty years. It covers twenty authors and some fifty works, many of them hybrid texts, for instance, Rafael Acevedo’s science fiction detective novel Exquisito cadáver (2001). Each text is analyzed from one or more critical approach, whether it be sociopolitical, intertextual or ideological. The reader will come away with an overview of what has developed in a relatively short span of time into a diverse and innovative literary genre on the island. This volume will be of interest to scholars of Puerto Rican, Caribbean and Latin American literature and academic libraries. |
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| Physical Description: | 384 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-361). |
| ISBN: | 9781036449919 1036449912 |