Artikel
Women who kill men : gender agency and subversion in Swedish crime novels
Verfasst von:
Mäntymäki, Tiina
info
in:
The European journal of women's studies
London [u.a.]:
2013
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441 - 454 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Mäntymäki, Tiina info |
| In: | The European journal of women's studies |
| Jahr: | 2013 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| The article discusses how women murderers embedded in the victim-turned-avenger narrative function as vehicles of social criticism in three contemporary Swedish crime novels, Henning Mankell’s The Fifth Woman, Håkan Nesser’s Woman with Birthmark and Fredrik Ekelund’s Nina och sundet [Nina and the Strait]. The murderers’ performances of murder, based on parody and irony, question masculinity and its institutionalized practices. By rendering vulnerable the discourse of hegemonic masculinity, these performances prove their subversiveness and critical potential. At the same time they renew the crime fiction genre and particularly the feminist crime novel in which female agency is identical with the agency of the detective. | |
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