![]() Noir or novela negra stories enabled their authors to arrive at a more genuine rendering of their national situations. ![]() What was it, though, that drew so many authors from very diverse countries to this trope? Answering that question may also shed light on its appropriation in other parts of the world as well. These political structures included dictatorship, institutionalized revolution, or democratic transition. Through a markedly realist aesthetic based largely in the subgenre of the “hardboiled” detective novel and the iconic “film noir” movement of the 1940s (both essentially products of the Depression-era U.S.), Spanish-speaking writers were able to confront the ideologies of their governments, as well as the current state of social affairs and politics in various countries that were undergoing periods of massive political and economic upheaval as they began to enter into a much more globalized world economy during the late 20 th Century. ![]() Noir as Politics: Spanish Language Hardboiled Detective Fiction and the Discontents of the Left ![]()
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