EAN: 9783039110216

FROM REVOLUTION TO MIGRATION - HELEN OAKLEY KAR...

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 theconcept of post-nationality. The
cultural fluidity that characterizes these new variants of crime fiction calls into question
traditional boundaries between national literatures and cultures.

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