Contemporary Nordic Literature And Spatiality (geocriticism And Spatial Literary Studies) Hardcover

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--back cover Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Introduction: Storied Spaces of Contemporary Nordic Literature (Kristina Malmio, Kaisa Kurikka)....Pages 1-22 Front Matter ....Pages 23-23 On the Commons: A Geocritical Reading of Amager Fælled (Elisabeth Friis)....Pages 25-53 Mapping a Postmodern Dystopia: Hassan Loo Sattarvandi’s Construction of a Swedish Suburb (Cristine Sarrimo)....Pages 55-78 Living Side by Side in an Individualized Society: Home, Place, and Social Relations in Late Modern Swedish-Language Picturebooks (Kristina Hermansson)....Pages 79-100 Front Matter ....Pages 101-101 Love, Longing, and the Smartphone: Lena Andersson, Vigdis Hjorth, and Hanne Ørstavik (Christian Refsum)....Pages 103-120 “Never Give Up Hopelessness!?”: Emotions and Spatiality in Contemporary Finnish Experimental Poetry (Anna Helle)....Pages 121-145 Front Matter ....Pages 147-147 Stavanger, Pre- and Postmodern: Øyvind Rimbereid’s Poetry and the Tradition of Topographic Verse (Hadle Oftedal Andersen)....Pages 149-168 The Poetics of Blank Spaces and Intervals in Selected Works of Elisabeth Rynell (Antje Wischmann)....Pages 169-183 What Have They Done to My Song? Recycled Language in Monika Fagerholm’s The American Girl (Julia Tidigs)....Pages 185-207 Front Matter ....Pages 209-209 “A Geo-ontological Thump”: Ontological Instability and the Folding City in Mikko Rimminen’s Early Prose (Lieven Ameel)....Pages 211-230 Uncanny Spaces of Transformation: Fabulations of the Forest in Finland-Swedish Prose (Kaisa Kurikka)....Pages 231-256 “The World in a Small Rectangle”: Spatialities in Monika Fagerholm’s Novels (Hanna Lahdenperä)....Pages 257-276 The Miracle of the Mesh: Global Imaginary and Ecological Thinking in Ralf Andtbacka’s Wunderkammer (Kristina Malmio)....Pages 277-299 Back Matter ....Pages 301-307