ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes that the present environmental crisis has prompted literature to work alongside with green criminology in redefining the notion of crime offering a more uncomfortable and less defined concept, sometimes veiled, sometimes ambivalent, certainly built as subjacent. Many contemporary narratives expose or assume environmental criminality and place it at the core of their fictions. These narratives operate through plot strategies that contribute to the exploration of an underlying criminal story that also leaves the environmental crime as ambivalent and subjacent to the main story. To illustrate this, the chapter examines Juan Villoro’s Mexican novel Arrecife.
