Conversation in Spanish, 6/E presents more than 50 photos or photo collages with a series of questions to help learners build vocabulary and phrases in preparation for speaking Spanish. It provides extensive exposure to and practice of the most common vocabulary domains and linguistic functions in Spanish.

Conversation in Spanish: Points of Departure (World Languages)

Schmidt-Cruz, Cynthia

Sedwick, Frank

Cengage Learning'

Argentina Noir (Suny Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture)

An engaging and insightful guide to Argentine crime fiction since 2000.Argentina Noir offers a guide to Argentine crime fiction, with a focus on works published since the year 2000. It argues that the novela negra, or crime novel, has become the favored genre for many writers to address the social malaise brought about by changes linked to globalization and market-driven economic policies. Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz presents close readings and original interpretations of eleven novels, all set in or around Buenos Aires, and explores the ways these texts adapt major motifs, figures, and literary techniques in Hispanic crime fiction in order to give voice to wide-ranging social critiques. Schmidt-Cruz addresses such topics as organized crime and institutional complicity, corruption during the presidency of Carlos Menem (1989–1999), terrorist attacks on Jewish institutions in Buenos Aires and the mysterious death of Alberto Nisman, and the winners and the losers of neoliberal structural changes. With a solid underpinning in sociological studies and criticism of the genre and its historical context, Argentina Noir reveals how these novels are renovating the genre to engage pressing issues confronting not only Argentina but also countries throughout Latin America and around the globe.

Argentina Noir: New Millennium Crime Novels in Buenos Aires (Suny Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

State Univ of New York Pr

An engaging and insightful guide to Argentine crime fiction since 2000.

State University of New York Press

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