Rape in Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy and Beyond

Contemporary Scandinavian and Anglophone Crime Fiction
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-349-33898-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 219 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 298 g

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 Nesbø, Håkan Nesser, Mo Hayder and Val McDermid.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Åström, B.

Horeck, T.

Gregersdotter, K.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Sexualpsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; T.Horeck, K.Gregersdotter B.Åström 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 Håkan 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 Nesbø; B.Åström 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

Über Autor(innen)

ZOË BRIGLEY-THOMPSON Lecturer in English and Creative Writing
BARBARA FISTER Academic librarian at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota, USA
MEGHAN FREEMAN Assistant professor in the Department of English at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
PHILIPPA GATES Associate Professor in Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada
MARLA HARRIS Independent scholar with a PhD from Brandeis University
CLAIRE HENRY PhD candidate in the English, Film and Media department at Anglia Ruskin University, UK
YVONNE LEFFLER Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden
PRISCILLA WALTON Professor of English at Carleton University in Canada