Description Argentina Noir offers a guide to Argentine Crime fiction, with a focus on works published since the year 2000.
Her previous books include Mothers, Lovers, and Others: The Short Stories of Julio Cortázar, also published by SUNY Press..
About the Author Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Director of the Center for Global and Area Studies at the University of Delaware.
With a solid underpinning in sociological studies and criticism of the genre and its historical context, Argentina Noir reveals how these Novels are renovating the genre to engage pressing issues confronting not only Argentina but also countries throughout Latin America and around the globe.
Schmidt-Cruz addresses such topics as organized Crime and institutional complicity, corruption during the presidency of Carlos Menem (1989-1999), terrorist attacks on Jewish institutions in Buenos Aires and the mysterious death of Alberto Nisman, and the winners and the losers of neoliberal structural changes.
Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz presents close readings and original interpretations of eleven novels, all set in or around Buenos Aires, and explores the ways these texts adapt major motifs, figures, and literary techniques in Hispanic Crime fiction in order to give voice to wide-ranging social critiques.
It argues that the novela negra, or Crime novel, has become the favored genre for many writers to address the social malaise brought about by changes linked to globalization and market-driven economic policies.
Description Argentina Noir offers a guide to Argentine Crime fiction, with a focus on works published since the year 2000
