La fiction policière écrite par des femmes espagnoles et latino-américaines depuis la fin des années 1980 a réussi à attirer l’attention sur des crimes souvent négligés par leurs homologues masculins, tels que le viol et les violences sexuelles, la violence domestique, la pornographie enfantine, la pédérastie et l’inceste. Ce volume, mettant en évidence une telle évolution dans le genre policier, intéressera les étudiants, les enseignants et les érudits du roman policier d’Amérique latine et d’Espagne, ainsi que ceux qui s’intéressent au roman policier féminin et aux lecteurs familiarisés avec les sous-genres de la fiction.
Crime fiction written by women in Spain and Latin America since the late 1980s has been successful in shifting attention to crimes often overlooked by their male counterparts, such as rape and sexual battery, domestic violence, child pornography, pederasty, and incest. In the twenty-first century, social, economic, and political issues, including institutional corruption, class inequality, criminalized oppression of immigrant women, crass capitalist market forces, and mediatized political and religious bodies, have at their core a gendered dimension. The conventions of the original noir, or novela negra, genre have evolved, such that some women authors challenge the noir formulas by foregrounding gender concerns while others imagine new models of crime fiction that depart drastically from the old paradigms. This volume, highlighting such evolution in the crime fiction genre, will be of interest to students, teachers, and scholars of crime fiction in Latin America and Spain, to those interested in crime fiction by women, and to readers familiar with the sub-genres of crime fiction, which include noir, the thriller, the police procedural, and the cozy novel.