Deconstructing True Crime Literature

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.