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Contents Acknowledgments  ix Introduction  1 1 Before Mexican Crime Fiction: The Death Scene and the Construction of Postrevolutionary Mexico  9 2 Ensayo de un crimenandEl hombre sin rostro: EarlyCritiquesofNationalismduring Mexico’sTransitiontoModernity   37 3 El complot mongol and La cabeza de la hidra: TheEraofLatentNationalCrisis   84 4 Cosa fácil,Un asesino solitario,andAmores perros: TheAgeofNationalDisintegration   125 Conclusions  179 Notes  185 Bibliography  199 Index  219 ...

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