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XXI. Martina Guevara – Genealogías nacionales para el policial latinoamericano

By January 4, 2022January 10th, 2022Issues, XXI. Narrativa Criminal

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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 (pp. 37-52; DOI: 10.23692/iMex.21.4)

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Dr. Martina Guevara

Martina Guevara works as postdoctoral fellow at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET, Argentina) and lecturer at the National University of San Martín (Argentina). She holds a Ph. D. in Literature from the University of Buenos Aires, and she also studied script-writing at the University of Cinema/Film (Argentina). She specialized in the study of identity configurations in Argentine narratives from the 1930s, and currently she works on research projects on Argentine literature and crime fiction. Her doctoral thesis, focused on the figure of the writer Juan Filloy, will be published in 2022.

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.

El siguiente texto realiza un análisis comparativo entre dos antologías del cuento policial elaboradas desde una perspectiva nacional: Cuento Policiaco Mexicano. Breve antología e Historias de Crimen y Misterio, dedicada esta última fundamentalmente a relatos argentinos. El artículo se centra en el prólogo realizado por María Elvira Bermúdez para la edición mexicana y el estudio preliminar efectuado por Juan-Jacobo Bajarlía para la argentina; el estudio comparativo entre ambos escritos introductorios se completa con un análisis del primer cuento de cada selección. Para tal fin, nos abocamos a dos características que entendemos coincidentes entre Bermúdez y Bajarlía: la primera es el objetivo de demostrar la especificidad del policial en tanto género; la segunda es dar cuenta de una tradición local del policial con sus singularidades. Ambas características permiten la construcción de una genealogía propia para el policial latinoamericano.

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