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...
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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
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy: Opening up the Debate; 1 'The Girl Who Pays Our Salaries': Rape and the Bestselling Millennium Trilogy; 2 The Millennium Trilogy and the American Serial Killer Narrative: Investigating Protagonists of Men Who Write Women; 3 Lisbeth Salander as a Melodramatic Heroine: Emotional Conflicts, Split Focalization, and Changing Roles in Scandinavian Crime Fiction
Part II Dismembered Bodies, Wounded States: Gender Politics in the Millennium Trilogy and Beyond4 Rape and the Avenging Female in Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy and Håkan Nesser's Woman with Birthmark and The Inspector and Silence; 5 The Body, Hopelessness, and Nostalgia: Representations of Rape and the Welfare State in Swedish Crime Fiction; 6 Over Her Dismembered Body: The Crime Fiction of Mo Hayder and Jo Nesbø; Part III Rewriting Scripts: Language, Gender, and Violence in Contemporary Crime Fiction; 7 Disarticulated Figures: Language and Sexual Violence in Contemporary Crime Fiction
8 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 LarssonPart IV Ethics, Violence, and Adaptation; 9 Rape and Replay in Stieg Larsson, Liza Marklund, and Val McDermid: On Affect, Ethics, and Feeling Bad; 10 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo : Rape, Revenge, and Victimhood in Cinematic Translation; 11 'Hidden in the Snow': Female Violence against the Men Who Hate Women in the Millennium Adaptations; Index;
