18 articles in this issue
 
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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
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
Matías Adam
Jordi Cerdà Subirachs
Paula Cristina Costa
Martín Veiga
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
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
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
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
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
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