Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality
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Beschreibung
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.
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.
Examines Nordic poetry, fiction, and children’s literature Considers the social, political, and technological uses of space in literature Incorporates literary urban studies, ecocriticism, and affect theory
Autor*in
Kristina Malmio
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“Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality makes a valuable contribution to spatial literary studies. As globalization and online interconnection have tied us closer together while at the same time compounding divisions, it is urgent to understand the changing relationships of space and culture. This volume brings together critical readings of a variety of spatial theories with provocative arguments about space in Nordic literary culture, especially Finnish and Swedish. Kristina Malmio and Kaisa Kurikka, and the writers they bring together in Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality, further establish spatial literary studies as a central issue in Nordic literary and cultural studies. The book will be a must-read study for anyone interested in literature and space, and in the literature of the Nordic countries.” (Andrew Nestingen, Professor of Scandinavian Studies, University of Washington, USA)
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