Prison/fiction stories: Writing, materiality and visuality in the newspaper Crítica (1922-1933) Relatos de prision/ficcion: Escritura, materialidad y visualidad en el diario Critica (1922-1933)

MASCIOTO, MARIA DE LOS ANGELES

LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH REVIEW

Cambridge University Press

Lugar: Cambridge; Año: 2022 vol. 57 p. 922 - 935

0023-8791

During the first half of the twentieth century, the Argentine newspaper Critica was one of the most notable spaces for the spread and consolidation of crime stories. At the same time, it was the newspaper that gave the most prominence to the situation of prisoners in local jails. This article hypothesizes that the popular press inextricably linked to detective literature was not only the first publishing platform for the circulation of numerous stories and novels of the genre but was also an optimal place for the construction and consolidation of the representations and procedures implemented in detective and crime literature. This article works to identify the textual features in which informative and fictional components are combined in a set of articles published in Critica between 1922 and 1933. It also analyzes the ways in which Critica presented these articles in its print space to give them relevance among others.