Migration and Identity in Nordic Literature / / Martin Humpál, Helena Březinová.

• VerfasserIn: Humpál, Martin,; Březinová, Helena,
• TeilnehmendeR: Březinová, Helena,
• Place / Publishing House: Prague : : Karolinum Press,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (160 pages)

The book Migration and Identity in Nordic Literature focuses on migration as it has manifested itself in literature and culture in the nineteenth, twentieth and early twenty-first centuries in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland. Since migration almost always leads to a disturbance of iden...

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Martin Humpal and Helena Brezinova
• PART I
• Tracing Approaches and Rethinking Concepts
• 1. Autobiographical Narratives in an Era of Migration: To What Extent Is the Idea of Individual and National Identity Viable?Annika Bostein Myhr
• 2. Creating (Im)migrant Literature in Sweden since the 1970sSatu Groendahl
• PART II - Migration, Identity and Literature
• 3. Andersen, Ibsen and Strindberg as Migrant Writers Helena Brezinova
• 4. Emigration and the Image of the U.S.A. in Henrik Ibsen's Samfundets stotter Martin f
• 5. Christer Kihlman's Autobiography Alla mina soener (1980; All My Sons) in the Perspective of Orientalism (1978) by Edward W. Said Jan Dlask
• 6. Playing with Identities: Variants of Biography and the Sylleptic "I" in Bronislaw Swiderski's Migration Novels Sylwia Izabela Schab
• 7. "Det har ar en marklig plats." Space as a Reflection of Identity in Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde's Novel Hon ar inte jagRadka Stahr8. Dulce de Leche: Translingualism, Laughter and Sweet Stickiness in Veronica Salinas' Og. En argentinsk au pairs ordbok Elisabeth Oxfeldt
• 9. Migration and Loss of Identity in Linnea Axelsson's AEdnan. Epos (2018)Petra Broomans
• 10. "The ugly grey-white blocks of concrete." Class, Gender and Ethnicity in Danish 'Ghetto Literature'Jon Helt Haarder.