Document Type
Article
Abstract
The anthropological forensic crime fiction is a detective genre which is primarily concerned with investigating human bodies. In the hermeneutical process of reading the bones (i.e. studying, interpreting, understanding, embodying), the most enduring record carrier of one's individuality, supported by a rhizoid network of scientific disciplines, the anonymous corpse becomes a personalized victim. The present discussion is based on the novels of Kathy Reichs. Specific characteristics of the materiality and mediality of representation can be traced through a juxtaposition of Reichs' novels with the serial Bones (Twentieth Century Fox, 2005 - Present) and the novel by Max Allan Collins Bones ™ Buried Deep.
Repository Citation
Povidiša, Ingrida. "Bones to Read: An Interpretation of Forensic Crime Fiction." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 8, no. 3, 2008, pp. 1–18. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol8/iss3/6