Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program
Glen Close
Close, Glen S. “Screening Slaughter. The Repressed Politics and Troubled Aesthetics of Gabriel Serra Argüello’s La Parka.” Humanimalia 12.1 (Fall 2020). 16,000 words. https://www.depauw.edu/humanimalia/issue%2023/close.html
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 and drawing from diverse subgenres to describe a transatlantic tradition of necropornography.