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Number 3 Year 2014

18 articles in this issue 

M.ª dos Anxos García Fonte

This article follows the traces of a special poetic narrative in the concepts of space and the body in four Galician women writers of the last third of the twentieth century: M.ª Xosé Queizán, Margarita Ledo, Xohana Torres and Úrsula Heinze. The symbolic ... see more

Pags. 113 - 132  

María do Cebreiro Rábade Villar

This article attempts to show that theoretical models that are alternative to the dominant ones are useful for providing committed and thoughtful solutions to two problems: a) the relationship between literature and critics in the Galician cultural field ... see more

Pags. 133 - 145  

Alva Martínez Teixeiro,Carlos Paulo Martínez Pereiro

In this essay, the intention is to map the plurality of crime writing —that is detective, mystery or crime fiction— which has appeared in Brazil over the last quarter of a century. Working from reflections which have already been published as well as spec... see more

Pags. 29 - 49  

Pere Comellas

Rubem Fonseca is considered a key author in the introduction of crime fiction in Brazil. This article reviews his contribution to the genre and analyzes the specifics of his narrative in the context of Brazilian literature, in which Fonseca breaks from an... see more

Pags. 51 - 69  

Adenize Franco

This article analyzes the characteristics of the crime novel in the contemporary fiction of Bernardo Carvalho, the Brazilian writer, and Francisco José Viegas, the Portuguese writer. The novels Nove Noites (2002) and Lourenço Marques (2002) are present as... see more

Pags. 71 - 84  

Pierre-Michel Pranville

Modesto Navarro published seven detective novels between 1982 and 2002. Artur Cortez, his detective, is an investigator who becomes personally involved in the revolutionary process that followed after April 25, 1974 in Portugal. This experience as an acti... see more

Pags. 85 - 95  

Elena Losada Soler

This article reflects upon two questions: is the “favela novel” a crime novel? And, is it possible to detect aspects of gender in Patrícia Melo’s “favela novels”? Arguably,the “favela novel” is a literature of violence, to be more precise, it is about the... see more

Pags. 9 - 27  

María Xesús Lama López

Manuel Rivas’ contribution to crime fiction analyzes drug trafficking and the social and political corruption associated with it from a peculiarly intimate perspective. The justification for the fluctuation in the novel between the bildungsroman and the c... see more

Pags. 97 - 109