Social Violence: Regularized and Necessary Theme for the Reception of The Peruvian Police Novel (1990-2013)

Abstract

This paper systematizes the issues addressed from the Peruvian police novel in the period from 1990 to 2013, with social violence being the most prominent. To support this recurrence, I rely on related sources that distinguish the corpus according to its classification. Sociologically, there are theoretical postulates such as the postmodernism of Fredric Jameson and Mario Vargas Llosa, along with the criminality of Luis Rodriguez Manzanera. In Peru, there is no evidence of a hegemonic taxonomy that is taken as a reference for it. One of the causes is the scarce documentation about police, judicial, historical and cultural issues that the author
himself makes about his works. This is demonstrated in the course of this work through the critical reception, which comprises three unsustainable topics: the reader’s demand with respect to this literary genre, the limitations that come with unconscious rejection of all value products and the implication of the mass culture market.