Female Corpses in Crime Fiction [electronic resource] : A Transatlantic Perspective / by Glen S. Close.
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9783319990132
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
EK/4286
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2018.
Yayın Bilgisi
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XII, 261 p. 19 illus. online resource.
Dizi
Crime Files, 2947-8359
İçindekiler Notu
1 Introduction -- 2 Necropornography in Modern Crime Fiction -- 3 The Hispanic Hard-Boiled -- 4 Femicide and Snuff -- 5 Conclusion -- Works Cited Index .
Özet, vb.
This book examines the central significance of sexualized female corpses in modern and contemporary Hispanic and Anglophone crime fiction. Beginning with the foundational detective fictions of the nineteenth century, it draws from diverse subgenres to describe a transatlantic tradition of necropornography characterized by lascivious interest in female cadavers, dissection, morgues, femicide, and snuff movies. Hard-boiled and police procedural classics from the U.S. and the U.K. are juxtaposed with texts by established Spanish and Spanish American genre masters and with obscure works that prefigure the contemporary transmedial boom in corpse-centered fictions. The rhetoric and aesthetics of necropornographic crime fiction are related to those of popular crime journalism and forensic-science television dramas. This study argues that crime fiction has long fixated disproportionately on the corpses of beautiful young white women and continues to treat their deaths and autopsies as occasions for male visual pleasure, male subjective slf-affirmation and male homosocial bonding.
Konu
Fiction.
Latin American literature.
Literature and technology.
Mass media and literature.
Literature, Modern __ 20th century.
Literature, Modern __ 21st century.
Comparative literature.
Communication.
Fiction Literature.
Latin American/Caribbean Literature.
Literature and Technology.
Contemporary Literature.
Comparative Literature.
Media and Communication.
Latin American literature.
Literature and technology.
Mass media and literature.
Literature, Modern __ 20th century.
Literature, Modern __ 21st century.
Comparative literature.
Communication.
Fiction Literature.
Latin American/Caribbean Literature.
Literature and Technology.
Contemporary Literature.
Comparative Literature.
Media and Communication.
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