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Miranda explores Argentine María Inés Krimer’s trilogy Sangre kosher (2010), Siliconas express (2013) and Sangre fashion (2015) featuring Ruth Epelbaum, the only woman private detective in the Argentine tradition. Miranda claims that the novels problematise the social, political and cultural anxieties of the modern Buenos Aires. Throughout the series, crimes from the past are seen through the lens of present ones, and the novels also reference crimes outside the capital and outside of Argentina. Miranda shows how the trilogy epitomises the capacity of local crime fiction to reflect broader preoccupations transcending national and temporal borders, especially highlighting issues relating to Jewish immigration and the more recent migration from neighbouring countries. Thus, the series ultimately interrogates problematic historical junctures providing a space to make sense of the present.
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Miranda, C. (2020). Temporal, (Trans)National and Human Mobility in María Inés Krimer’s Kosher Trilogy. In: Piipponen, M., Mäntymäki, H., Rodi-Risberg, M. (eds) Transnational Crime Fiction. Crime Files. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53413-4_3
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