1. Introduction: Storied Spaces of Contemporary Nordic Literature / Kristina Malmio and Kaisa Kurikka -- Part I. Whose Place Is This Anyway? On the Social Uses of Space and Power : 2. On the Commons: A Geocritical Reading of Amager Fœlled / Elisabeth Friis -- 3. Mapping a Postmodern Dystopia: Hassan Loo Sattarvandi's Construction of a Swedish Suburb / Cristine Sarrimo -- 4. Living Side by Side in an Individualized Society: Home, Place, and Social Relations in Late Modern Swedish-Language Picturebooks / Kristina Hermansson -- Part II. Where Do You Feel? Spaces, Emotions, and Technology : 5. Love, Longing, and the Smartphone: Lena Anderson, Vigdis Hjorth, and Hanne Ørstavik / Christian Refsum -- 6. " Never Give Up Hopelessness!?": Emotions and Spatiality in Contemporary Finnish Experimental Poetry / Anna Helle -- 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 / Hadle Oftedal Andersen -- 8. The Poetics of Blank Spaces and Intervals in Selected Works of Elisaveth Rynell / Antje Wischmann -- 9. What Have They Done to My Song? Recycled Language in Monika Fagerholm's The American Girl / Julia Tidigs -- 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 / Lieven Ameel -- 11. Uncanny Spaces of Transformation: Fabulations of the Forest in Finland-Swedish Prose / Kaisa Kurikka -- 12. "The World in a Small Rectangle": Spatialities in Monika Fagerholm's Novels / Hanna Lahdenperä -- 13. The Miracle of the Mesh: Global Imaginary and Ecological Thinking in Ralf Andtbacka's Wunderkammer / Kristina Malmio -- Index.
Summary:
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.
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