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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Åström, B
• Gregersdotter, K
• Horeck, T
• Katarina Gregersdotter
• Berit Åström
• Tanya Horeck
• Gregersdotter, Katarina
• Åström, Berit
• Horeck, Tanya

Titel

Rape in Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy and Beyond: Contemporary Scandinavian and Anglophone Crime Fiction

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

London: Palgrave Macmillan

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 01 02 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 Nesbø, Håkan 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. 08 02 '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, clichéd, subversive and deeply uncomfortable.' - Lee Horsley 02 02 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. 13 02 BERIT ÅSTRÖM is a Senior Lecturer in English at Umeå University, Sweden. She currently holds an Intra-European Fellowship from Marie Curie Actions at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK, where she is researching the trans-historical trope of the dead mother. She has previously published on Old English poetry and male pregnancy fan fiction. KATARINA GREGERSDOTTER is a Senior Lecturer in English at the Department of Language Studies at Umeå University, Sweden. Her research interests include the figure of the zombie, the Scandinavian welfare state, gender and emotion studies, Margaret Atwood, and crime fiction. TANYA HORECK is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK. She has published essays in a number of journals including Screen , New Formations and Women: A Cultural Review . She is author of the book Public Rape: Representing Violation in Fiction and Film (2004) and co-editor of the collection of essays The New Extremism in Cinema: From France to Europe (2011). 04 02 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 19 02 The first scholarly book to focus exclusively on representations of rape in crime fiction Unique in its analysis and comparison of both Anglophone and Scandinavian crime fiction, covering a diverse range of authors including Stieg Larsson, John Harvey, Megan Abbott, Susanna Moore, Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser Questions what lies behind the rise in extreme images of sexual violence in contemporary crime fiction Explores the pivotal role that rape plays in articulating ideas about gender, sex, ethics and the body politic in contemporary crime fiction 16 02 Horsley: TWENTIETH-CENTURY CRIME FICTION; OUP, 2005 Knight: CRIME FICTION SINCE 1800; Palgrave, 2004, 2010 Markowitz: THE GAY DETECTIVE NOVEL; Mc Farland & Co, 2004 McCaw: ADAPTING DETECTIVE FICTION: CRIME, ENGLISHNESS AND THE TV DETECTIVE; Continuum, 2010 Nestingen: CRIME AND FANTASY IN SCANDINAVIA: FICTION, FILM AND SOCIAL CHANGE; University of Washington Press, 2008 (closest competitor to the proposed book but does not take a comparative approach nor does it discuss gender issues) Peach: MASQUERADE, CRIME AND FICTION: CRIMINAL DECEPTIONS; Palgrave, 2006 Pepper: THE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN CRIME NOVEL: RACE, ETHNICITY, GENDER AND CLASS; Edinburgh University Press, 2000 Plain: TWENTIETH-CENTURY CRIME FICTION: GENDER, SEXUALITY AND THE BODY; Edinburgh University Press, 2001 Rzepka & Horsley (eds): A COMPANION TO CRIME FICTION; Blackwell, 2010.   None of the above titles focus exclusively on rape in crime fiction.