The Argentinian and Chilean 'Novela Negra' (crime fiction) of the post-dictatorship

Abstract

This paper aims to explain some contextual features of the Novela Negra in Chile and Argentina as part of the detective fiction in the period of post-dictatorship. Then, it will try to accent some nuances of difference between each local production. While in the Argentine case, literature generates a less realistic, more fictional literature, product of dictatorial censorship; the Chilean writers, working in the period of democratic transition, expressed in a more raw and realistic way.