Brown Gumshoes: Detective Fiction and the Search for Chicana/o Identity (Center for Mexican American Studies History, Culture and Society Series) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Brown Gumshoes: Detective Fiction and the Search for Chicana/o Identity (Center for Mexican American Studies History, Culture and Society Series) Book

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, especially those of the disenfranchised. As detective fiction has slowly earned critical respect, more authors from minority groups have chosen it as their medium. Chicana/o authors, previously reluctant to write in an underestimated genre that might further marginalize them, have only entered the world of detective fiction in the past two decades. In this book, the first comprehensive study of Chicano/a detective fiction, Ralph E. Rodriguez examines the recent contributions to the genre by writers such as read more...
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