What is it about?
In this review I evaluate Helen Oakley's book on Cuban and Cuban-American crime fiction. I consider the book a welcome addition to the field, and well worth reading. I especially enjooyed the first chapter, in which the author traces the history of Cuban crime fiction.
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The review shows how extremely important crime fiction was in Cuba in the 1970s, and how Helen Oakley's book analyses contemporary takes on the genre, by Cuban and Cuban Ameican writers Leonardo Padura, José Latour, Alex Abella and Carlonia García-Aguilera.
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It is always satisfying to review a good book (while pointing out the one issue I have with it).
Carlos Uxo
Monash University
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This page is a summary of: Helen OakleyFrom Revolution to Migration: A Study of Contemporary Cuban and Cuban-American Crime Fiction. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2012. xiv + 186 pp. (Paper US$53.95), New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, January 2014, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/22134360-08801050.
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