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Chapter 13 - The Mountains and Death: Revelations of Climate and Land in Nordic Noir

from Part II - Evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2019

Adeline Johns-Putra
Affiliation:
University of Surrey
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This chapter investigates the uses to which climate is put in a range of Nordic noir novels and films. In the majority of such texts, climate functions as both a feature of particular locales (usually, the stark meteorological and ecological settings associated with the Nordic lands) and a way to emphasise or otherwise give aesthetic expression to human actions. Strikingly, however, a small number of texts could be identified as what Linda Rugg terms ‘ecocrime’ fiction. In these, non-human nature appears as an actant in its own right, for it figures as the victim of crime. However, criminal investigation in these texts is displaced from non-human to human victims, thus deferring inquiry into the non-human and underlining non-human nature as an aporia of meaning or as the site of trauma.

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Print publication year: 2019

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