Open AccessModerkærlighedens kriminelle dimensioner - Om krimi, melodrama og humanistisk kulturkritik i Kerstin Ekmans prisbelønnede roman "Händelser vid vatten"
Author(s) -
Annemette Hejlsted
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
kvinder, køn and forskning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2245-6937
pISSN - 0907-6182
DOI - 10.7146/kkf.v0i3.28448
Subject(s) - humanism , subject (documents) , sociology , psychology , psychoanalysis , philosophy , theology , computer science , library science
Kerstin Ekman is one of the greatest female authors in Nordic literature. In 1994, she was awarded the Nordic Council Literature Prize for her novel "Events by the Water". This article makes a study of Ekman's masterpiece, examining how the novelist - by combining the strategies of the crime novel with those of melodrama - focuses on the concept of maternal love as an inherent and given value. What Ekman offers, the article concludes, is a revised humanist basis for evaluating maternal love as well as humans' relationship with each other and with Nature, based on a rethink of the human subject as the sum of memories.