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[Ann-Sofie Lönngren]

Rethinking National Literatures and the Literary Canon in Scandinavia


Editors:Ann-Sofie Lönngren, Heidi Grönstrand, Dag Heede, Anne Heith

http://www.cambridgescholars.com/rethinking-national-literatures-and-the-literary-canon-in-scandinavia


Description


The literary field and canon in the Nordic countries are under constant negotiation and transformation, with various alternative literatures having evolved alongside the majority literatures of these nations in recent decades. These new phenomena, constructed around perspectives regarding language, ethnicity, sexuality, gender and social class, have been categorised as migration, minority and queer literatures. Rethinking National Literatures and the Literary Canon in Scandinavia highlights these literatures and their histories, roles and impacts on both the literary establishment and (post)modern societies in the Nordic region. It also discusses how the constructions of national literary canons today are challenged by the influence of various critical perspectives, including postcolonial theories, and queer, indigenous, ethnic literary and gender studies. On a broader level, the book showcases the position literature has in the building of national identities in Nordic nation-states, and, in the process, demonstrates that the plurality of perspectives in literary studies has the potential to question the fundamentals of the literary canon, canon formations, national self-understanding, and identity.

The book is composed of nine articles authored by literary scholars in Finland, Sápmi, Sweden, and Denmark. It addresses issues such as methodological nationalism in literary scholarship, the uses of concepts such as “transnational” and “immigrant” literature, the ways in which traditional Sámi features are employed in contemporary Sámi poetry, postcolonial representations in Nordic literature, and the ways that political processes of “Othering” are made visible in contemporary literature’s uses of traditional Scandinavian folklore. Read together, these articles provide an overview of some of the challenges and changes in Nordic literature today.





Table of contents



Part I: Key Concepts and Theoretical Reflections

National, Transnational and Entangled Literatures: Methodological Considerations Focusing on the Case of Finland
Mikko Pollari, Hanna-Leena Nissilä, Kukku Melkas, Olli Löytty,
Ralf Kauranen and Heidi Grönstrand

Challenging the Bodies and Borders of Literature in Scandinavia: Methodological Nationalism, Intersectionality and Methodological Disciplinarity.........................................................................................................
Annika Olsson


Immigrant Literature in Finland: The Uses of a Literary Category............

Olli Löytty



Part II: Rethinking Language, Literature and National Belonging

Sophie Elkan’s Ambiguous Dream of the Orient: On Cultural Identity
and the National Literary Canon......................................................................
Helena Bodin



Reindeer and Yoik Revisited: Traditional Sámi Features in Contemporary Sámi Poetry

Kaisa Ahvenjärvi

Religion and Revolt in Colonial Scandinavia: Postcolonial Representations in Three Novels
Margareta Petersson


Part III: Queering the “Nordic”



A Gay History of Nordic Literature: Reflections on a Future Project......

Dag Heede

Cross-Dressing Mysteries and Monsters: Nineteenth- and Twenty-First-Century Cross-Dressers in Swedish Suspense Fiction
Moa Sam Holmqvist

Trolls!! Folklore, Literature and “Othering” in the Nordic Countries........
Ann-Sofie Lönngren




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Ann-Sofie Lönngren, Ph.d. and Associate Professor (Docent) in Literature

Center for Gender Studies, Uppsala University

Box 527, 751 20 Uppsala

Tel: 0046184715889

Book-editor for lambda nordica: ann-sofie.lonngren at lambdanordica.se<mailto:ann-sofie.lonngren at lambdanordica.se>

Author of Following the Animal. Power, Agency, and Human-Animal Transformations in Modern, Northern-European Literature (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015)
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