دانلود کتاب Argentina Noir: New Millennium Crime Novels in Buenos Aires

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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Argentina Noir
From the Whodunit to the Novela Negra: The Poetics of Crime Fiction
Development of the Genre in Argentina
An Overview of Current Practitioners in Argentina
Toward a Characterization of and Approach to the Genre in Argentina
1. Combatting Organized Crime and Institutional Complicity, with a Sentimental Subtext
Trafficking Enabled by Institutional Corruption
A Sentimental Cop Goes Up against Human Traffickers: Los hombres te han hecho mal by Ernesto Mallo
Hard-Boiled Realism Meets the Fairy Tale
A Rare, Honest Policeman
Trafficking in Women’s Bodies
Systemic Corruption
The Desperate Poor, the Decadent Rich, and the Menem Allegory
Generically Useless Women and the Sentimental Family
The Foul Breezes of Buenos Aires: Ciudad Santa by Guillermo Orsi
Drug Trafficking and Official Complicity
The (Relatively) Honest Policeman
Noir Dames
The Che Guevara Parody
Foul Breezes of Buenos Aires
Calvary and the Christ Figure
2. The President and All His Men: Watchdog Journalists Tackle Corruption During the Menem Presidency
The Menem Presidency and the Neoliberal Era
“Novelas menemistas”: El vuelo de la reina by Tomás Eloy Martínez and El muerto indiscreto by Rubén Correa
Hard-Boiled Journalists
Gender Trouble
The Urban Labyrinth
Reading over the Edge: Ficciones Verdaderas
Portrait of an Era
Walsh and Marlowe: Templates for Dargas and Camargo?
Watchdog Journalism
3. Terrorist Attacks on Jewish Buenos Aires and the Mysterious Death of Alberto Nisman
The Hapless Investigation of the Attack on the AMIA
A Sexy Journalist Cracks an Anti-Semitic Plot: Asalto al paraíso by Marcos Aguinis
An Anticonspiracy Thriller
When the Investigator Is a Femme Fatale
Dawud’s Story: What Makes a Suicide Bomber?
Jewish Buenos Aires
The Rogue Spy and the Demise of the Special Prosecutor: El fiscal by R. S. Pratt
The Duplicitous Puppet Master and His Stooge
Uncle Sam’s Heavy Hand
Geographic Spaces and the Media
Having It Both Ways with the Roman à Clef
4. Trouble in the Country Club, or “Los Nuevos Ricos También Lloran”
The Gated Community as Emblematic of the Neoliberal Era
Disintegration of Family Ties: Retrato de familia con muerta by Raúl Argemí
The Infamous García Belsunce Case
“Policial palimpséstico”: Framing the Crime Scene
A Crime Sparked and Fed by Drug Money
Undressing the Dead Woman
A False Paradise
The High Cost of Keeping Up Appearances: Las viudas de los jueves by Claudia Piñeiro
Noir as a Reaction to Consumer Culture
Speaking from the Grave? The Disembodied Choral Voice
The Consuming Lifestyle and the Authenticity Effect
A Fragile Lifestyle
Foreshadowing the Fall
A Place for Redemption outside the System?
Regendering the Genre: Betibú by Claudia Piñeiro
Turning the Detective Genre on Its Head
Taking Hold of the Telling: Fiction about Fiction
The Social Critique
Celebrating the Powers of Fiction
The Gated Community: A Disturbing Message
5. The “Other Side”: The Urban Poor and the Crime Novel
No Longer a Middle-Class Society
Collateral Damage of Consumer Society: Puerto Apache by Juan Martini
A New Model of Urban Planning and Its Collateral Effects
An Unlikely Detective Seeking an Identity
A Power Struggle among Traffickers
Disposal People
In Thrall of Consumer Society
A Deteriorated Buenos Aires
Maru: A Marketable Woman
Fatal Attraction: La fragilidad de los cuerpos by Sergio Olguín
Another Strong-Willed and Sexual Female Journalist
Mapping Social Class: Zona sur and zona norte
“La chica de Recoleta” and the Railroad Engineer: Does Class Matter?
“No nos une el amor sino el espanto”: Looking Awry at a Doomed Relationship
The Workings of Noir
Conclusion. Social Collapse and Human Connections
Territorialization and Transformation
The Sentimental Subtext
Notes
Works Cited
Index