2022/01/17 by Héctor Fernando Vizcarra, Vizcarra, Héctor Fernando
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Anthologies #Cinema History and Criticism #Contemporary crime short-fiction #Editorial series #Latin American Literature Analysis #Latin American Literature Studies #Urban mysteries
paper · doi:10.23692/imex.21.3
openalex publication_date 2022/01/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/01
pp. 23-36. Through the examination of Buenos Aires Noir (2017) and Mexico City Noir (2010), released by Akashic Books in its Noir series, this paper analyzes the relations between both volumes and the tradition of “Urban mysteries” literary fiction emerged in the 19th Century, the inherent circulation and validation on the Literary field, and its discursive construction as anthological-format books of stories by their owns kind of publisher’s initiative, the selection criterion and the writers chosen by editors Ernesto Mallo (Argentina) and Paco Ignacio Taibo II (Mexico).