Brown gumshoes : detective fiction and the search for Chicana/o identity /
Popular fiction, with its capacity for diversion, can mask important cultural observations within a framework that is often overlooked in the academic world. Works thought to be merely "escapist" can often be more seriously mined for revelations regarding the worlds they portray, especiall...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2005.
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| ISBN: | 0292796781 9780292796782 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Rolando Hinojosa's KCDT series : instrumental rationality and the advance of late capitalism in Belken County
- Michael Nava's Henry Rios series : you can't step in the same ræo twice
- Lucha Corpi's Gloria Damasco series : detecting cultural memory and Chicanidad
- Manuel Ramos's Luis Montez series : àquiän soy yo? crises of identity and culture
- Rudolfo Anaya's Sonny Baca series : governing the self in a sea of change.