Research Catalog

Title

Rape in Stieg Larsson's millennium trilogy and beyond : contemporary Scandinavian and Anglophone crime fiction / edited by Berit Åström, Katarina Gregersdotter and Tanya Horeck.

Publication

Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Åström, Berit.
• Gregersdotter, Katarina.
• Horeck, Tanya.

Description

xi, 219 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Larsson, Stieg, 1954-2004 > Criticism and interpretation
• Detective and mystery stories, Scandinavian > History and criticism
• Scandinavian fiction > 21st century > History and criticism
• Scandinavian fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
• Rape in literature
• Rape victims in literature
• Women in literature
• Violence in literature
• Sex crimes in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Stieg Larsson's millennium trilogy: opening up the debate. "The girl who pays our salaries": rape and the bestselling millennium trilogy / Priscilla Walton -- The millennium trilogy and the American serial killer narrative: investigating protagonists of men who write women / Barbara Fister -- Lisbeth Salander as a melodramatic heroine: emotional conflicts, split focalization and changing roles in Scandinavian crime fiction / Yvonne Leffler -- Dismembered bodies, wounded states: gender politics in the millennium trilogy and beyond. Rape and the avenging female in Stieg Larsson's millennium trilogy and Håkan Nesser's Woman with birthmark and The inspector and Silence / Marla Harris -- The body, hopelessness and nostalgia: representations of rape and the welfare state in Swedish crime fiction / Katarina Gregersdotter -- Over her dismembered body: the crime fiction of Mo Hayder and Jo Nesbo / Berit Åstrom -- Rewriting scripts: language, gender and violence in contemporary crime fiction. Disarticulated figures: language and sexual violence in contemporary crime fiction / Meghan 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 / Zoë Brigley-Thompson -- Ethics, violence and adaptation. Rape and replay in Stieg Larsson, Liza Marklund and Val McDermid: on affect, ethics and feeling bad / Tanya Horeck -- The girl with the dragon tattoo: rape, revenge and victimhood in cinematic translation / Claire Henry -- "Hidden in the snow": female violence against the men who hate women in the millennium adaptations / Philippa Gates.

Call Number

JFD 13-662

ISBN

• 9780230308404
• 0230308406

LCCN

2012033359

OCLC

798615425

Title

Rape in Stieg Larsson's millennium trilogy and beyond : contemporary Scandinavian and Anglophone crime fiction / edited by Berit Åström, Katarina Gregersdotter and Tanya Horeck.

Imprint

Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Åström, Berit.

Gregersdotter, Katarina.

Horeck, Tanya.

Research Call Number

JFD 13-662