Deconstructing True Crime Literature (Crime Files)

This book provides a critical discussion of True Crime literature, arguing for the deconstruction of the genre into subgenres that better reflect a work’s contents. In analysing seminal and lesser-known works, the areas of authenticity, accuracy, and author proximity are considered to form a framework on which an individual publication’s subgenre (re)categorisation can be assessed. The book considers the likes of Ann Rule, Truman Capote, and Maggie Nelson, among other notable authors. Their works - those that fit into True Crime and those that defy categorisation within the genre as it exists - are reviewed, and their defining features critiqued. Topics such as narrative methodologies, figurative language, and utilisation of research are considered in support of this. These strands combine to a larger discussion regarding a deconstruction of True Crime, and the ways in which this will improve the social responsibility of the genre, and encourage a more conscientious consumerism of it.

• | Author: Charlotte Barnes
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Sep 12, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 227 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 3031410440
• | ISBN-13: 9783031410444