Peate, A. 2019. Disturbing Scenes in Amir Valle's Detective Series El descenso a los infiernos. in: Lange, C. and Peate, A. (ed.) Crime Scenes: Latin American Crime Fiction from the 1960s to the 2010s Oxford Peter Lang. pp. 197-217
| Chapter title | Disturbing Scenes in Amir Valle's Detective Series El descenso a los infiernos |
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| Authors | Peate, A. |
| Editors | Lange, C. |
| Peate, A. | |
| Abstract | Exiled Cuban author Amir Valle’s detective series El descenso a los infiernos [The Descent into Hell] is officially unavailable in Cuba. Contrary to Cuba’s reputation as a society in which violent crime is uncommon, the series provides a nightmarish vision of the island as one in which obscene crimes are committed. The narratives demonstrate a morally-compromised and small-minded Cuban state police as incapable of solving crimes without the support of Alex Varga, ‘rey de la marginalidad’, a neoliberal challenge to the New Man. |
| Keywords | Cuba, detective fiction, Amir Valle, sex, violence, hombre nuevo, New Man |
| Book title | Crime Scenes: Latin American Crime Fiction from the 1960s to the 2010s |
| Page range | 197-217 |
| Year | 2019 |
| Publisher | Peter Lang |
| Publication dates | |
| Published | 19 Jun 2019 |
| Place of publication | Oxford |
| ISBN | 9781787074354 |