AN EXAMPLE OF DEVIATION IN SPANISH CRIME FICTION: EL FINAL DEL HOMBRE

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Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi
Issue:58
AN EXAMPLE OF DEVIATION IN SPANISH CRIME FICTION: EL FINAL DEL HOMBRE

AN EXAMPLE OF DEVIATION IN SPANISH CRIME FICTION: EL FINAL DEL HOMBRE

Pages : 459-466

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Publication Date : 2023-09-08

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Spanish crime fiction develops from a male gaze. In these novels, the detective is identified with man/reason, and the victim with woman/death; therefore, crime fictions reinforce and maintain gender identities. The genre also confirms the heteronormative system and ensures its continuity. The novel, El Final del Hombre insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(2017);, written by Antonio Mercero, breaks this sexist structure of the genre and opens the concept of identity itself to question through a transsexual detective. This article aims to determine the deviations in Spanish crime fiction by examining the first transsexual detective figure in the context of Queer Theory. As a result, it reveals that sex, gender, sexual orientation, desire, and sexual identity are not static and innate. The sexist structure of Spanish crime fiction is reversed thanks to the queer detective Sofía Luna. The concept of identity is problematized and the heteronormative system, through which the genre also maintains, is defeated.
Keywords : El Final del Hombre, Antonio Mercero, İspanyol Polisiye Romanı, Transseksüel Dedektif, Queer Kuram

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