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Journal Article
'All This Shit Was Also the Border': Mediation and Generic Borders in Paco Ignacio Taibo II's Detective Fiction
2021
Overview
Paco Ignacio Taibo II's José Daniel Fierro novels Leonardo's Bicycle (1993) and Life Itself (1987) use \"foreignness\" to explore the expectations and restrictions of the detective genre; the inconsistencies of identity, nationalism, and race; and the duality of the border. The term \"foreigner\" operates in Taibo's Frontera Dreams as a crucial metaphor for the out-of-place loner who can no longer return to the comforting certainties of law and order. Just as genre produces the outsider whose alienation results from expectations of generic conventions, the \"foreigner\" in Taibo also results from the border and the harsh realities of race and difference.
