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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.
Table des matières
1. Introduction: Storied Spaces of Contemporary Nordic Literature.- Part I Whose Place Is This Anyway? On the Social Uses of Space and Power.- 2. On the Commons: A Geocritical Reading of Amager Fælled.- 3. Mapping a Postmodern Dystopia: Hassan Loo Sattarvandi's Construction of a Swedish Suburb.- 4. Living Side by Side in an Individualized Society: Home, Place, and Social Relations in Late Modern Swedish-Language Picturebooks.- Part II Where Do You Feel? Spaces, Emotions, and Technology.- 5. Love, Longing, and the Smartphone: Lena Andersson, Vigdis Hjorth and Hanne Ørstavik.- 6. "Never Give Up Hopelessness!?": Emotions and Spatiality in Contemporary Finnish Experimental Poetry.- Part III Which Language Do You Use? Spaces of Language and Text.- 7. Stavanger, Pre- and Postmodern: Øyvind Rimbereid's Poetry and the Tradition of Topographic Verse.- 8. The Poetics of Blank Spaces and Intervals in Selected Works of Elisabeth Rynell.- 9. What Have They Done to My Song? Recycled Language in Monika Fagerholm's The American Girl.- Part IV Is This a Possible Space? Potentialities of Space.- 10. "A Geo-Ontological Thump": Ontological Instability and the Folding City in Mikko Rimminen's Early Prose.- 11. Uncanny Spaces of Transformation: Fabulations of the Forest in Finland-Swedish Prose.- 12. "The World in a Small Rectangle": Spatialities in Monika Fagerholm's Novels.- 13. The Miracle of the Mesh: Global Imaginary and Ecological Thinking in Ralf Andtbacka's Wunderkammer.
A propos de l'auteur
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.
