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Volume 138, 2017

Articles

Gebrokken: Refugees, Trauma, and Poetry in Aasne Linnestå’s Morsmål (2012)
Elisabeth Oxfeldt
138, 2017, s. 5–22
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Elisabeth Oxfeldt, Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo

“Gebrokken”: Refugees, Trauma, and Poetry in Aasne Linnestå’s Morsmål (2012)

This article offers an analysis of Aasne Linnestå’s long poem Morsmål (Mother Tongue) published in 2012. It is a postfeminist poem about an encounter between a Norwegian woman and a refugee woman arriving from outside Europe. Linnestå’s poetic method in capturing this encounter, I argue, can be understood at the intersection of three verbal strategies: that of trauma, that of postmonolingualism, and that of an écriture féminine, all of which entail a kind of broken language and narrative. A central term in Morsmål is precisely the Norwegian word “gebrokken”, from the German “gebrochen”, meaning broken, and used to describe verbal expressions marked by incorrect grammar and accented speech, especially language as it is spoken by people who have a different mother tongue. In order to further explore this interest in non-fluent linguistic expressions, I draw on E. Ann Kaplan’s theory on how trauma can be represented, on Yasemin Yildiz’ discussion of a postmonolingual paradigm, and above all on Julia Kristeva’s understanding of a poetic, rhythmic language linked to bodily experience.

Uteslutna associationer, språkvåld och återideologisering hos Anna Hallberg och Lars Mikael Raattamaa
Johan Alfredsson
138, 2017, s. 23–52
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Johan Alfredsson, Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion, University ofGothenburg

Excluded Associations, Violence of Language and Re-ideologisation in Anna Hallberg and Lars Mikael Raattamaa (Uteslutna associationer, Språkvåld och återideologisering hos Anna Hallberg och Lars Mikael Raattamaa)

The purpose of this article is to study what the French linguist Jean-Jacques Lecercle identified as “the remainder of language” in his book The Violence of Language (1990), and how this is put into play in two poetry books from 2008, by the Swedish poets Anna Hallberg and Lars Mikael Raattamaa. By explicitly challenging a large number of conventions of language, typography, and poetry, these books raise critical issues on how the language system works. These issues specifically concern what parts and aspects of language are allowed into the linguistic system, and what parts and aspects are kept out. These regulatory mechanisms are demonstrated, and scrutinised, in these books — making them meta-critical, as well as ideology-critical. This scrutiny not only shows the relevance of identifying and understanding the mechanisms of exclusion that Lecercle identified among academic linguistics 25 years ago. It also brings them into contemporary society, where they – due to globalisation and technological development — have disseminated, and become part of almost everyone’s daily experience. The results of the article stress how this dissemination increases the societal relevance of the kind of scrutiny undertaken by Hallberg and Raattamaa, and how it can assist in re-ideologising language.

Endast med sig själv eller ett med sin kultur? Självframställning och idealism i Kerstin Söderholms dagbok
Anna Möller-Sibelius
138, 2017, s. 53–80
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Anna Möller-Sibelius, Åbo Akademi University

All by herself or inseparable part of culture? Self-presentation and idealism in Kerstin Söderholm’s diary (Endast med sig själv eller ett med sin kultur? Självframställning och idealism i Kerstin Söderholms dagbok)

The aim of this study is to examine the construction of idealistic ideas in the posthumous diary of the Finland-Swedish modernist poet Kerstin Söderholm, All by myself (Endast med mig själv 1947–1948). In this autobiographical genre associated with women writers and intimacy in particular, Söderholm explores personal themes from the position of an outsider. However, she reveals her bonds to a specific cultural context in describing her physical and mental fragility, her identification with a degenerate upper class and her suicidal thoughts. This holds also for the complications in her erotic relationships and her reflections on creativity. She expresses ideas from the turn of the 20th century and idealistic premises quite common in the interwar period. Consequently, her thoughts are not emerging (only) from her “soul” or “inner being” — as the psychological perspective in her diary and its paratexts suggests — but from external references such as Nietzscheism, mysticism, and an idealistic tradition in general. In her diary, Söderholm is able to express herself as a woman writer in an “egoistic” manner and contribute to the cultural debate on different topics on equal terms with male authorities. In this respect, the genre has a liberating effect on her creativity. On the other hand, her subordination to patriarchal ideas is striking. Söderholm’s self-presentation raises fundamental questions about individual freedom and contextuality.

Den andres blick. En motivstudie i Hjalmar Bergmans författarskap
Sten Brandorf
138, 2017, s. 81–103
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Sten Brandorf, former lecturer at Halmstad University

The other’s gaze: A motif study in the authorship of Hjalmar Bergman (Den andres blick. En motivstudie i Hjalmar Bergmans författarskap)

The other’s gaze is a recurring motif in the authorship of Hjalmar Bergman. The aim of this article is to study the function of the motif in the selected works regarding plot and theme. In novels such as Loewenhistorier and Chefen fru Ingeborg the motif has an anticipatory function. Furthermore, the motif is related to fate, which is an overarching theme in a series of novels. In Markurells i Wadköping the other’s gaze works as an increasing element of the theme’s dramatic development. In Jonas och Helen the motif is of crucial importance to the novel’s love intrigue. The ugly girl exposed to the other’s gaze is a guiding principle in Lotten Brenners ferier. The motif also contributes to the characterization of the protagonists of the novels. What primarily characterizes the motif ’s function is its emotional charge, which effectively contributes to the dynamics of the intrigue.

En svensk fransk roman. Främlingskap och svenskhet i Aurora Ljungstedts Jernringen
Sam Holmqvist
138, 2017, s. 104–122
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Sam Holmqvist, Gender Studies, School of Culture and Education, Södertörn University

A Swedish French Novel: Foreignness and Swedishness in Aurora Ljungstedt’s Jernringen (En svensk fransk roman. Främlingskap och svenskhet i Aurora Ljungstedts Jernringen)

This article discusses the construction of Swedish identity in Aurora Ljungstedt’s adventure novel Jernringen (“The Iron Ring”, 1871). Ljungstedt very seldom commented on her own work, but she has made two separate statements about Jernringen. On the occasion of its second publication, the anonymous “Author” criticized readers of having misinterpreted the novel’s morals. A few years later, Ljungstedt (now no longer anonymous) was more cautious, now claiming to be herself critical of the novel and explicitly calling it too “French” for Swedish minds. Ljungstedt was right in appointing Jernringen as her work most influenced by French novels. Paradoxically, it is the same work that most clearly points out what Ljungstedt considered to be Swedish. Main character Juanna is a common stereotype, a dark and ardent femme fatale. Throughout her life she is unable to live up to the expectations of being Swedish and particularly being a Swedish woman. Although Juanna strives to become a better person, those attempts seem doomed to failure. This is explicitly attributed to a mysterious family curse, but between the lines it is clearly credited to her black hair, brown eyes and passionate self. Juanna’s most striking feature is her ability to change her appearance, her ability to pass as whatever she chooses. In the same time, she is unable to pass as what she supposedly “is”: a Swedish woman. The reader of Jernringen continually seeks to understand the hidden truth of Juanna’s self, but eventually learns that the truth is that there is no truth. Juanna’s true self is absence of being Swedish, and absence of a true self. Thus, the novel creates a perception of Swedishness as authenticity and stability.

Leopold och familjen Odel. Två okända dikter
Marcus Willén Ode
138, 2017, s. 123–130
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Marcus Willén Ode, Department of Literature, Uppsala University

Leopold and the Odel family: Two unknown poems (Leopold och familjen Odel. Två okändadikter)

Two previously unknown poems by Carl Gustaf af Leopold (1756–1829), author, official, private secretary to Gustav III and member of the Swedish Academy, were recently discovered in a copy of Carl Gustaf Leopolds samlade skrifter (1800–1833). The two texts, written in the years 1800–1802 and 1801–1803, are dedication poems in honor of Brita Christina Odel (1738/39–1802) and her daughter, Maria Virginia Westberg (1759–1803). The findings will complete and contribute to the ongoing publication of the collected works of Leopold.

Reviews

Valérie, Alfvén, Violence gratuite et adolescents-bourreaux. Réception, traduction et enjeux de deux romans suédois pour adolescents, en France, au début des années 2000. Forskningsrapporter: Cahiers de la Recherche, 55, Institutionen för franska och italienska, Stockholms universitet. Stockholm 2016.
Isabelle Nières-Chevrel
138, 2017, s. 131–136
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Malin Alkestrand, Magiska möjligheter. Harry Potter, Artemis Fowl och Cirkeln i skolans värdegrundsarbete. Svenska barnboksinstitutets skriftserie 137, Lunds universitet. Makadam. Göteborg och Stockholm 2016.
Anna Nordenstam
138, 2017, s. 136–142
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Jens Eriksson, The End of Piracy. Rethinking the History of German Print Piracy in the Early Nineteenth Century. Institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoria, Uppsala universitet. Uppsala 2016.
Martin Fredriksson
138, 2017, s. 142–146
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Erik Erlanson, Ordkonst och levnadskonst. Det skrivande subjektet i John Ashberys, Yves Bonnefoys och Inger Christensens diktning. Critica litterarum Lundensis 15, Språk- och litteraturcentrum, Lunds universitet. Lund 2017.
Axel Englund
138, 2017, s. 146–151
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Sam Holmqvist, Transformationer. 1800-talets svenska translitteratur genom Lasse-Maja, C.J.L. Almqvist och Aurora Ljungstedt. Uppsala universitet. Makadam. Göteborg och Stockholm 2017.
Åsa Arping
138, 2017, s. 151–156
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Per Israelson, Ecologies of the Imagination. Theorizing the Participatory Aesthetics of the Fantastic. Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University. Stockholm 2017.
Marcel O’Gorman
138, 2017, s. 156–160
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Eva E. Johansson, Realismens röster. Kvinnliga kontorister i mellankrigstidens finlandssvenska litteratur. Åbo Akademis förlag. Åbo 2017.
Kristina Malmio
138, 2017, s. 161–165
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Niclas Johansson, The Narcissus Theme from "Fin de Siècle" to Psychoanalysis. Crisis of the Modern Self. Nordeuropäische Arbeiten zur Literatur, Sprache und Kultur 5, Peter Lang. Frankfurt am Main 2017.
Bo Hakon Jørgensen
138, 2017, s. 165–169
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Elin Käck, "Swarming European Consciousness". Europe and Tradition in the Work of William Carlos Williams. Studies in language and culture 27, Department of Culture and Communication, Linköping University. Linköping 2015.
Hélène Aji
138, 2017, s. 169–174
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Kenneth Lindegren, Osannolika händelser och den svenska realistiska romanen. Ett estetiskt och existentiellt bekymmer. Makadam. Göteborg och Stockholm 2016.
Anders Pettersson
138, 2017, s. 174–179
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Charlott Neuhauser, Fruktansvärd, ospelad och nyskriven – kriser och konflikter kring ny svensk dramatik. Från Gustav III:s originaldramatik till dagens beställningsdramatik. Institutionen för kultur och estetik, Stockholms universitet. Stockholm 2016.
Birgitta Johansson Lindh
138, 2017, s. 179–183
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Olle Nordberg, Avkoppling och analys. Empiriska perspektiv på läsarattityder och litterär kompetens hos svenska 18-åringar. Skrifter utgivna vid Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen vid Uppsala universitet 49, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Uppsala 2017.
Anders Öhman
138, 2017, s. 184–189
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Freja Rudels, I berättandets makt. Om tre romankroppar av Per Olov Enquist. Åbo Akademis förlag. Åbo 2016.
Annelie Bränström Öhman
138, 2017, s. 189–193
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Daniela Silén, Rolldiktens jag. Aspekter på svenskspråkiga rolldikter från Bellman till Runeberg. Nordica Helsingiensia 49, Helsingfors universitet. Helsingfors 2017.
Roland Lysell
138, 2017, s. 193–196
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Evelina Stenbeck, Poesi som politik. Aktivistisk poetik hos Johannes Anyuru och Athena Farrokhzad. Lunds universitet. Ellerströms. Lund 2017.
Åsa Arping
138, 2017, s. 196–202
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Morten Feldtfos Thomsen, Scenes of Writing, Scenes of Looking. Don DeLillo, Claus Beck-Nielsen, and the Politics of the Novel. Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, Karlstad University Studies 2016:32. Karlstad 2016.
Karen Jacobs
138, 2017, s. 202–209
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Katrin Lilja Waltå, "Äger du en skruvmejsel?" Litteraturstudiets roll i läromedel för gymnasiets yrkesinriktade program under Lpf 94 och Gy 2011. Humaniora med inriktning mot utbildningsvetenskap, institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion, Göteborgs universitet. Göteborg 2016.
Annette Årheim
138, 2017, s. 209–216
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Lydia Wistisen, Gångtunneln. Urbana erfarenheter i svensk ungdomslitteratur 1890–2010. Skrifter utgivna av Svenska barnboksinstitutet nr 141, Stockholms universitet. Ellerströms. Lund 2017.
Paul Tenngart
138, 2017, s. 216–220
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Övriga recensioner Helene Blomqvist, Nordenflychts nej. Ett upplysningsreligiöst spänningsfält och dess litterära manifestationer. Gidlunds förlag. Möklinta 2016.
Carin Franzén
138, 2017, s. 221–224
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Eva Borgström, Berättelser om det förbjudna. Begär mellan kvinnor i svensk litteratur 1900–1935. Makadam. Göteborg och Stockholm 2016.
Bibi Jonsson
138, 2017, s. 224–228
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Susanne Bär, "So seltsam und öde, eine verlassene Landschaft." Umwelt und Natur in Nordlandromanen Knut Hamsuns. Rombach Verlag KG. Freiburg in Breisgau/Berlin/Wien 2016.
Roland Lysell
138, 2017, s. 228–233
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Pil Dahlerup, Litterær reformation. Copenhagen University Press. Köpenhamn 2016.
Eva Haettner Aurelius
138, 2017, s. 233–236
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Axel Englund, Landskapsläsning. Utfärder i W. G. Sebalds poesi, övers. Katarina Båth, Eureka – Ellerströms akademiska 54, Ellerström. Lund 2016.
Mattias Pirholt
138, 2017, s. 236–239
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Fiktion och verklighet. Mångvetenskapliga möten. Red. Anna Bohlin & Lena Gemzöe. Makadam. Göteborg och Stockholm 2016.
Helena Wahlström Henriksson
138, 2017, s. 240–244
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Martin Gregersen & Tobias Skiveren, Den Materielle Drejning. Natur, teknologi og krop i (nyere) dansk litteratur. University of Southern Denmark Studies in Scandinavian Languages and Literatures 134, Syddansk universitetsförlag. Odense 2016.
Adam Wickberg Månsson
138, 2017, s. 244–247
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Gunilla Hermansson, Modernisternas prosa och expressionismen. Studier i nordisk modernism 1910–1930. Makadam. Göteborg och Stockholm 2015.
Paul Tenngart
138, 2017, s. 247–250
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Göran Hägg, Sanningen är alltid oförskämd. En biografi över August Strindberg. Norstedts. Stockholm 2016.
Ulf Olsson
138, 2017, s. 250–252
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"Inte kan jag berätta allas historia?" Föreställningar om nordisk arbetarlitteratur. Red. Beata Agrell, Åsa Arping, Christer Ekholm & Magnus Gustafsson. LIR skrifter 5, Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion, Göteborgs universitet. Göteborg 2016.
Anna Williams
138, 2017, s. 253–255
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Karlfeldt & Co – den förlorande generationen? Red. Ola Nordenfors & Eva-Britta Ståhl. Karlfeldt-samfundets skriftserie 48. 2016.
AnnaCarin Billing
138, 2017, s. 255–259
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Johan de Mylius, Livet og skriften. En bog om H. C. Andersen. Gads Forlag. Köpenhamn 2016.
Conny Svensson
138, 2017, s. 259–261
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Novel Districts. Critical Readings of Monika Fagerholm. Red. Kristina Malmio & Mia Österlund. Studia Fennica Litteraria 9, Finnish Literature Society. Helsingfors 2016.
Lina Samuelsson
138, 2017, s. 261–263
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Erik van Ooijen, Dödsporr: etik, estetik, våld. Aiolos. Stockholm 2016.
Magnus Ullén
138, 2017, s. 264–269
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Rethinking National Literatures and the Literary Canon in Scandinavia. Red. Ann-Sofie Lönngren, Heidi Grönstrand, Dag Heede & Anne Heith. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Newcastle upon Tyne 2015.
Pia Maria Ahlbäck
138, 2017, s. 269–271
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Subjekt Södergran. Om jagen i Edith Södergrans poesi, Red. Elisabeth Hästbacka, Anders E. Johansson & Anders S. Johansson. Makadam. Göteborg och Stockholm 2016.
Cecilia Annell
138, 2017, s. 272–276
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Jimmy Vulovic, Propagandans berättarteknik. Eureka – Ellerströms akademiska 53, Ellerströms. Lund 2016.
Claes Ahlund
138, 2017, s. 276–279
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