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Latin American Detectives against Power

Individualism, the State, and Failure in Crime Fiction
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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.
Fabricio Tocco is assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese convenor at the Australian National University.
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