Female Corpses in Crime Fiction A Transatlantic Perspective /

• Main Author: Close, Glen S. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Crime Files
• Subjects: Fiction.; Latin American literature.; Technology in literature.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Comparative literature.; Communication.; Latin American/Caribbean Literature.; Literature and Technology/Media.; Contemporary Literature.; Comparative Literature.; Media and Communication.

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 necroporno...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Necropornography in Modern Crime Fiction
• 3 The Hispanic Hard-Boiled
• 4 Femicide and Snuff
• 5 Conclusion
• Works Cited Index .