Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality

ISBN-13: 9783030233525 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 307 str.

Opis

This open access collection offers a detailed mapping of recent Nordic literature and its different genres (fiction, poetry, and children's literature) through the perspective of spatiality. Concentrating on contemporary Nordic literature, the book presents a distinctive view on the spatial turn and widens the understanding of Nordic literature outside of canonized authors. Examining literatures by Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish authors, the chapters investigate a recurrent theme of social criticism and analyze this criticism against the welfare state and power hierarchies in spatial terms. The chapters explore various narrative worlds and spaces-from the urban to parks and forests, from textual spaces to spatial thematics, studying these spatial features in relation to the problems of late modernity.

Spis treści

 

1.      Chapter 1/Introduction:  Storied Spaces of Contemporary Nordic Literature

Kristina Malmio and Kaisa Kurikka

 

Part I Whose Place Is This Anyway? On the Social Uses of Space and Power

2.      Chapter 2 On the Commons: A Geocritical Reading of Amager Fælled

Elisabeth Friis

 

3.      Chapter 3 Mapping a Postmodern Dystopia: Hassan Loo Sattarvandi’s Construction of a Swedish Suburb

Cristine Sarrimo

 

4.      Chapter 4 Living Side by Side in an Individualized Society: Home, Place, and Social Relations in Late Modern Swedish-language Picturebooks

Kristina Hermansson

 

Part II Where Do You Feel? Spaces, Emotions, and Technology

5. Chapter 5 Love, Longing and the Smartphone: Lena Andersson, Vigdis Hjorth and Hanne Ørstavik

Christian Refsum

 

6.      Chapter 6 “Never Give Up Hopelessness!?”: Emotions and Spatiality in Contemporary Finnish Experimental Poetry

Anna Helle

 

Part III Which Language Do You Use? Spaces of Language and Text

7.      Chapter 7 Stavanger, Pre- and Postmodern: Øyvind Rimbereid’s Poetry and  the Tradition of Topographic Verse

Hadle Oftedal Andersen

 

8.      Chapter 8 The Poetics of Blank Spaces and Intervals in Selected Works of Elisabeth Rynell

Antje Wischmann

 

9.      Chapter 9 What Have They Done to My Song? Recycled Language in Monika Fagerholm’s The American Girl

Julia Tidigs

 

Part IV Is This a Possible Space? Potentialities of Space

10.  Chapter 10 “A Geo-Ontological Thump”: Ontological Instability and the Folding City in Mikko Rimminen’s Early Prose

Lieven Ameel

 

11.  Chapter 11 Uncanny Spaces of Transformation: Fabulations of the Forest in Finland-Swedish Prose

Kaisa Kurikka

 

12.  Chapter 12 “The world in a small rectangle.” Spatialities in Monika Fagerholm’s Novels

Hanna Lahdenperä

 

13.  Chapter 13 The Miracle of the Mesh: Global Imaginary and Ecological Thinking in Ralf Andtbacka’s Wunderkammer

Kristina Malmio 

O autorze

Kristina Malmio is University Lecturer, Adjunct Professor in Nordic Literature at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and leader of the research project “Late Modern Spatiality in Finland-Swedish Prose Literature.”

Kaisa Kurikka is Researcher and Adjunct Professor in the School of History, Culture, and Arts Studies at the University of Turku, Finland. She has a doctorate in Finnish Literature.