Since its invention in the nineteenth century, detective fiction has never been more popular. 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.įemale Corpses in Crime Fiction A Transatlantic PerspectiveĬrime Files Series Editor Clive Bloom Professor Emeritus Middlesex University London, UK The rhetoric and aesthetics of necropornographic crime fiction are related to those of popular crime journalism and forensic-science television dramas.
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. Hard-boiled and police procedural classics from the U.S.
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. This book examines the central significance of sexualized female corpses in modern and contemporary Hispanic and Anglophone crime fiction.
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