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This work presents ecocritical research on literature, film and other media from northern Europe. Examining the role of culture, history and society in the forming of Nordic narratives of nature and the environment, the anthology offers a comprehensive and multi-faceted overview of the most recent ecocritical research in Scandinavian studies.
List of contents
Introduction: Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment
Reinhard Hennig, Anna-Karin Jonasson, and Peter Degerman
Part I: Nordic Anthropocene Narratives
1. "The Safest Place on Earth": Cultural Imaginaries of Safety in Scandinavia
Lauren E. LaFauci
2. Moving Mountains: Cinema, Deep Time, and Climate Change in Hanna Ljungh's I am Mountain, to Measure Impermanence
Anna Sofia Rossholm
3. "Visionary Cartography": The Aesthetic Mediation of the Anthropocene in Kaspar Colling Nielsen's Mount Copenhagen
Jørgen Bruhn
4. Nordic Nature on the Edge of the North Sea: Kjersti Vik's Mandø
Katie Ritson
5. The Tale of The Great Deluge: Risto Isomäki's The Sands of Sarasvati as Climate Fiction
Toni Lahtinen
Part II: Language, Aesthetics, and the Non-Human in Nordic Environments
6. Of Wildflowers and Butterflies: Interrogating Species Names in Norwegian Poetry from the National Romantic to the Anthropocene
Jenna Coughlin
7. From Anthropomorphism to Ecomorphism: Figurative Language in Tarjei Vesaas' Fuglane and Stina Aronson's Hitom himlen
Beatrice G. Reed
8. Botanics in Dystopian Environments: Human-Plant Encounters in Contemporary Finnish-language Dystopian Fiction
Hanna Samola
9. Interspecies Encounters - An Eco-Ethical Approach to Frida Nilsson's Ishavspirater
Nina Goga
Part III: Environmental Justice and the Postcolonial North
10. The Nature of Hunger: Karl August Tavaststjerna's Hårda tider
Frederike Felcht
11. Scandinavian Wilderness and Violence: Two Women Travelling in Sápmi 1907-1916
Kari Haarder Ekman
12. 'Extractivism' in Sápmi: Elegiac Ecojustice in Liselotte Wajstedt's Film Kiruna Space Road and Marja Helander's Silence Photographs
Cheryl J. Fish
About the author
Reinhard Hennig is associate professor of Nordic literature at the University of Agder.Anna-Karin Jonasson is junior lecturer in the Department of Humanities at Mid Sweden University and PhD candidate at Åbo Akademi University.Peter Degerman is senior lecturer of comparative literature, Mid Sweden University.Reinhard Hennig is associate professor of Nordic literature at the University of Agder.Anna-Karin Jonasson is junior lecturer in the Department of Humanities at Mid Sweden University and PhD candidate at Åbo Akademi University.Peter Degerman is senior lecturer of comparative literature, Mid Sweden University.Jørgen Bruhn is professor of comparative literature at Linnaeus University, Sweden and director of Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies.
Summary
This work presents ecocritical research on literature, film and other media from northern Europe. Examining the role of culture, history and society in the forming of Nordic narratives of nature and the environment, the anthology offers a comprehensive and multi-faceted overview of the most recent ecocritical research in Scandinavian studies.
