Description: Groundless Noir: Ontology and Latin American Crime Fiction explores the dominant noir moods of precarity and uncertainty as ways of making a home within an otherwise unstable world. Larson argues that Latin American noir discloses a desire to acclimate to the strange and the frightful and to model ways of navigating crisis.
Review Quotes:
"Groundless Noir offers an innovative and exhaustive analysis of Latin American crime fiction. In an eloquent conversation with Heidegger, Larson takes the pulse of the genre's multiple re-appropriations in the region. This lucid monograph reveals how the absence of an ontological ground--once a radical betrayal of the genre's horizon of expectations that subverted the Anglo-American canon--has gradually and paradoxically established a new precarious, yet subsisting foundation."
--Fabricio Tocco "author of Precarious Secrets: A History of the Latin American Political Thriller" (1/28/2026 12:00:00 AM)