Antiheroes: Mexico and Its Detective Novel

by Ilan Stavans, Jesse H. Lytle, and Jennifer A. Mattson

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This engaging study traces the development in Mexico of what Roger Caillois called le roman policier. Both novels and stories are used as self-sufficient artifacts to understand Mexico's tumultuous history since the 1910 revolution of Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa.
  • ISBN10 0838636446
  • ISBN13 9780838636442
  • Publish Date 1 May 1997
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Associated University Presses
  • Imprint Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,U.S.
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 177
  • Language English