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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Close, Glen Steven
Titre(s) : Female corpses in crime fiction [Texte imprimé] : a transatlantic perspective / Glen S. Close
Publication : [Cham, Switzerland] : Palgrave Macmillan, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : xii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection : Crime files
Lien à la collection : Crime files
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-255) and index
"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 self-affirmation and male homosocial bonding."--Back cover
Sujet(s) : Cadavres -- Dans la littérature
Femmes -- Dans la littérature
Roman policier -- Thèmes, motifs
Littérature hispanophone -- Thèmes, motifs
Littérature anglophone -- Thèmes, motifs
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 3319990128. - ISBN 9783319990125. - ISBN 9783319990132 (erroné) (PDF ebook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45625385v
Notice n° :
FRBNF45625385
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)