Rape in Stieg Larsson's millennium trilogy and beyond [Elektronisk resurs] contemporary Scandinavian and Anglophone crime fiction / edited by Berit Åstrom, Katarina Gregersdotter, Tanya Horeck.

• Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction-- T.Horeck, K.Gregersdotter & B.Astrom PART I: STIEG LARSSON'S MILLENNIUM TRILOGY: OPENING UP THE DEBATE 'The Girl Who Pays Our Salaries': Rape and the Bestselling Millennium Trilogy-- P.Walton The Millennium Trilogy and the American Serial Killer Narrative: Investigating Protagonists of Men Who Write Women-- B.Fister Lisbeth Salander as a Melodramatic Heroine: Emotional Conflicts, Split Focalization and Changing Roles in Scandinavian Crime Fiction-- Y.Leffler PART II: DISMEMBERED BODIES, WOUNDED STATES: GENDER POLITICS IN THE MILLENNIUM TRILOGY AND BEYOND Rape and the Avenging Female in Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy and Hakan Nesser's Woman with Birthmark and The Inspector and Silence-- M.Harris The Body, Hopelessness and Nostalgia: Representations of Rape and the Welfare State in Swedish Crime Fiction-- K.Gregersdotter Over Her Dismembered Body: the Crime Fiction of Mo Hayder and Jo Nesbo-- B.Astrom PART III: REWRITING SCRIPTS: LANGUAGE, GENDER AND VIOLENCE IN CONTEMPORARY CRIME FICTION Disarticulated Figures: Language and Sexual Violence in Contemporary Crime Fiction-- M.Freeman Male Fantasy, Sexual Exploitation and the Femme Fatale: Reframing Scripts of Power and Gender in Neo-Noir Novels by Sara Paretsky, Megan Abbott and Stieg Larsson-- Z.Brigley-Thompson PART IV: ETHICS, VIOLENCE AND ADAPTATION Rape and Replay in Stieg Larsson, Liza Marklund and Val McDermid: On Affect, Ethics and Feeling Bad-- T.Horeck The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: Rape, Revenge and Victimhood in Cinematic Translation-- C.Henry 'Hidden in the Snow': Female Violence against the Men Who Hate Women in the Millennium Adaptations-- P.Gates Index.

• Focusing on the sexualized violence of Stieg Larsson's bestselling Millennium trilogy - including the novels, Swedish film adaptations, and Hollywood blockbusters - this collection of essays puts Larsson's work into dialogue with Scandinavian and Anglophone crime novels by writers including Jo Nesbo, Hakan Nesser, Mo Hayder and Val McDermid. -- With its powerful images of rape and revenge, Stieg Larsson's bestselling Millennium trilogy has made a major impact on the contemporary crime novel. This collection explores the role that rape plays in contemporary crime fiction, examining the sexually violent images at the heart of the Millennium trilogy in its many guises - from novels, to Swedish film adaptations, to Hollywood blockbuster. At the centre of discussion is Larsson's female heroine, Lisbeth Salander, one of popular culture's most unforgettable characters. The collection evaluates her status as a twenty-first century heroine, arguing that what makes Salander so interesting and culturally relevant, is her blend of vulnerability and violence. Putting Larsson's work into dialogue with a range of contemporary Scandinavian and Anglophone crime novelists, including Jo Nesbo, Hakan Nesser, Mo Hayder and Val McDermid, these essays offer cross-cultural insights into how notions of sexual violence, victims and vengeance are constructed. Opening up a range of vital new questions, the book interrogates the very terms by which we understand and encounter violent images in popular fiction and film. 
• 'This is an excellent addition to the growing body of critical literature dealing with cross-cultural developments in crime fiction. Larsson is a controversial writer, and one of the real strengths of this collection is the way it showcases critical debate about some of the most difficult aspects of contemporary crime fiction - its representation of sexual violence; its underlying socio-political agendas and its moral-ethical substance; and the ways in which audiences respond to a genre that is by turns conventional, cliched, subversive and deeply uncomfortable.' - Lee Horsley. 

Ämnesord

Våldtäkt i litteraturen  (sao)

Rape in literature.  (LCSH)

Rape in motion pictures.  (LCSH)

Detective and mystery stories, Scandinavian  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Detective and mystery stories, English  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Literature.  (eflch)

Rape in literature  (LCSH)

Genre

Analys och tolkning  (saogf)

Personnamn

Larsson, Stieg, 1954-2004 -- Criticism and interpretation.

Larsson, Stieg, 1954-2004

Larsson, Stieg, 1954-2004

Klassifikation

LIT (ämneskategori)

839.738 (DDC)

809.3872 (DDC)