Chicano Detective Fiction

Chicano writers have embraced the detective novel, successfully diversifying and refining a traditional Anglo-American and British genre. In this book the 21 ""whodunits"" of Rolando Hinojosa, Rudolfo Anaya, Lucha Corpi, Michael Nava, and Manuel Ramos are closely studied, with emphasis on how each writer uniquely renders a particular regional or cultural variation of what it means to be Chicano. Interviews with the five writers conclude the work.