Brown gumshoes detective fiction and the search for Chicana/o identity /

Rodriguez, Ralph E. 1965-

Brown gumshoes detective fiction and the search for Chicana/o identity / [electronic resource] : by Ralph E. Rodriguez. - 1st ed. - Austin : University of Texas Press, 2005. - xv, 183 p. - History, culture, and society series . - History, culture, and society series. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-173) and index.

Rolando Hinojosa's KCDT series : instrumental rationality and the advance of late capitalism in Belken County -- Michael Nava's Henry Rios series : you can't step in the same ro twice -- Lucha Corpi's Gloria Damasco series : detecting cultural memory and Chicanidad -- Manuel Ramos's Luis Montez series : aquian soy yo? crises of identity and culture -- Rudolfo Anaya's Sonny Baca series : governing the self in a sea of change.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Detective and mystery stories, American--History and criticism.
American fiction--Mexican American authors--History and criticism.
Mexican Americans--Intellectual life.
Mexican Americans in literature.
Group identity in literature.


Electronic books.

PS374.D4 / R63 2005

813/.08720986872