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González, Flora M. – Hispania, 2017
In her 2010 novel "Sangra por la herida," the Cuban novelist, poet, and essayist Mirta Yáñez constructs a panoramic view of metropolitan Havana, following the model of Latin American fiction starting in the 1980s based on a revised version of the detective novel. "Sangra por la herida" functions best as a narrative that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Latin American Literature, Novels, Urban Areas
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Song, H. Rosi – Hispania, 2009
Focusing on Leonardo Padura Fuentes's hard-boiled fiction, this essay traces the origin and evolution of the genre in Cuba. Padura Fuentes has challenged the officially sanctioned socialist "literatura policial" that became popular in the 1970s and 1980s. creating a new model of criticism that is not afraid to confront the island's socio-economic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Latin American Literature, Fiction, Rhetoric