Rape in Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy and Beyond [electronic resource] : Contemporary Scandinavian and Anglophone Crime Fiction /
Åström, B.editor.
Gregersdotter, K.editor.
Horeck, T.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Larsson, Stieg, 1954-2004
Sexual behavior.
Sexual psychology.
Literature.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Motion pictures—United States.
Literature   .
Fiction.
Sexual Behavior.
Literature, general.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
American Cinema and TV.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Fiction.