Transatlantic Mysteries presents a comparative study that brings
together authors Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Manuel Vazquez Montalban
-from two specific political contexts: post-1968 Mexico and
post-Franco Spain- who both work in one specific genre-"noir"
detective fiction. In this so called age of globalization, Spain
and Mexico have witnessed an explosion in the production of "noir"
detective fiction which these authors choose purposefully in order
to infiltrate the market with formulaic "popular" literature while
simultaneously critiquing the effects of the neoliberal strategies
embraced by their countries. By locating themselves at the
crossroads where literature meets the market, they not only
underscore the effects of capital on literary and cultural
production but also explore the possibility for their writing to
resist the influences of capital and question the role of an
intellectual in an era of globalization. At the core of their
writing Taibo and Vazquez Montalban examine the revolutionary
possibilities of literature and popular culture to offer a new kind
of Marxist project that revitalizes the Left by redefining the role
of socially engaged literature in a globalized landscape.
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