Genealogías nacionales para el policial latinoamericano. Cuento Policiaco Mexicano. Breve antología de María Elvira Bermúdez e Historias de Crimen y Misterio de Juan-Jacobo Bajarlía

Abstract

The following text compares two crime fiction anthologies elaborated from a national perspective: Cuento Policiaco Mexicano. Breve antología and Historias de Crimen y Misterio, this last book fundamentally dedicated to Argentine stories. The article is focused on the foreword by María Elvira Bermúdez for the Mexican edition and the preliminary study by Juan-Jacobo Bajarlía for the Argentinian one; the comparative study between the two introductory writings is completed with an analysis of the first short story of each selection. To this end, the paper address two characteristics that we understand to coincide between Bermúdez and Bajarlía: the first is the objective of demonstrating the specificity of the police officer as a gender; the second is to give an account of a local police tradition with its singularities. Both characteristics allow the construction of a genealogy of its own for the Latin American crime fiction.

Keywords

• mexican and argentinian crime fiction anthologies
• literary genealogies
• latin american crime fiction