"There's nothing people won't do to one another, if the circumstances are right": Male Rape and the Politics of Representation in John Harvey's Police Procedural Easy Meat

Abstract

The article discusses portrayals of male rape in John Harvey's police procedural novel Easy Meat (1996), exploring how the novel interrogates the representation of sexual crime, male rape, and masculinity in crime fiction. By examining Harvey's portrayal of masculinity and sexuality in Easy Meat, the author explores the ways in which crime fiction problematizes the politics of representing sexual crime.