Identitások a nordic noir északi részén. Åsa Larsson Rebecka Martinsson-sorozatáról
Identity in the North of Nordic Noir: A Discussion of Åsa Larsson’s Series about Rebecka Martinsson

Summary/Abstract: Åsa Larsson’s novels about tax attorney Rebecka Martinsson are situated in the far north of Sweden, in and around Kiruna. The novels have been translated into many languages, and in 2017 one of the novels, The Blood Spilt, was finally translated into Northern Sami, one of the languages spoken in the area where the novels are set. The aim of this paper is to discuss and analyze Larsson’s five novels in order to demonstrate how issues of identity are connected to the peripheral North – the ‘real’ North of Nordic Noir. The novels will not be discussed separately, but the chapter is divided into themes that are of importance to discuss identity and place: views of the North, crossing/blurring the borders, place and identity, history: borders of periphery, center and self.

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