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SPAN 151 SC - “Necropolis”: Detective Novels and Cities in Spain and Latin America


This course will examine how writers from Spain and Latin America rethink the detective novel as a genre. We will analyze in particular how these authors, by drawing pictures of crime, vice and political intrigues create new urban portraits. Each of these novels could be read as the monograph of a city, a neighborhood, a suburb. The mystery lies also in the blurred boundaries between geographical space, between the real urban violence and fiction, humor and solemnity, nomadism and inertia, ordinary and extraordinary people.

Prerequisite(s): SPAN 044 .
Course Credit: 1.0


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