Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality

ISBN-13: 9783030233556 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 307 str.

Kristina Malmio;Kaisa Kurikka

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.

Blurb

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.