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This module will examine an array of the rich seam of crime fictions from across Latin America: that is, works of narrative fiction, film, and photography that have thematized imagined misdemeanours and/or responded to documented crimes in the region in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In doing so, the module will ask a number of conceptual, generic, and historical questions relating to wrongdoing and culture in Latin America: for example, what constitutes crime and criminality in these works?; what is the relationship between law-breaking and the production of literature, cinema, and visual culture?; how have conventions of major (but often also considered 鈥榮econd-rate鈥�) literary or cinematic genres 鈥� such as the 鈥榟ard-boiled鈥� or 鈥榤ystery鈥� forms or the 鈥榟eist movie鈥� 鈥� been indigenised or hybridised in selected works from across the region? Throughout the module, a number of diverse perspectives on crimes, both public and private, will be considered, as will their different protagonists (detective, perpetrator, and victim); questions of ethics, gender, and reader/spectatorship will also be discussed. In addition to the 2 pieces of summative assessment, students will each be required to give a 10-minute class presentation during the course.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
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This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.
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