The northern (narco) Detective Fiction versus the Detective Fiction of the Center: positions and contrasts

Abstract

If we consider that literary regionalism is generally associated with the notion of space, then it is necessary to think that all literary wor-ks are produced, read, and disseminated in a particular place. Under this premise, I will analyze regional characteristics in the imagery of crime fiction. It should be noted that the crime narrative of nor-thern Mexico, as an aesthetic expression, establishes its own guide-lines; consequently, writers associated with northern literature show a change in discourse, space, and subject matter compared to crime novels produced in the center of the country. For this reason, it is ad-visable to review the circumstances and reasons that lead to writing from a setting outside the center, not as the only option, but as a va-riant that aims to seek a particularity that may break with the inertia of publishing from the cultural capital.