"This volume ... originated in November 2009 during the two-day workshop '(Multi-)lingual interventions: A comparative view on contemporary migration literature in Scandinavia and the Benelux' organized by Wolfgang Behschnitt and the Department of Nordic Studies at Ghent University"--Page xii. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Multicultural literatures in a comparative perspective / Wolfgang Behschnitt and Magnus Nilsson -- Multilingualism and diglossia in migration literature : the case of Flemish songs in northern France / Elien Declercq and Michael Boyden -- Literature in multicultural and multilingual Sweden : the birth and death of the immigrant writer / Magnus Nilsson -- New voices wanted : the search for a Danish multicultural literature / Dörthe Gaettens -- Every carpet a flying vehicle? : multiculturality in the Dutch literary field / Liesbeth Minnaard -- The Netherlands is doing well : allochtoon writing talent is blossoming there : defining Flemish literature, desiring allochtoon writing / Sarah De Mul -- Bi- and multicultural aspects in the literary writing of translingual authors in Sweden / Peter Leonard -- The rhythm of hip hop : multi-ethnic slang in Swedish literature after 2000 / Wolfgang Behschnitt -- Is there or is there not a literature of migration in Denmark? / Søren Frank -- The emergence of a Dutch-Moroccan literature : an institutional and linguistic explanation / Marjan Nijborg and Fouad Laroui -- We are not bodies only, but winged spirits : metamorphosis in the work of Hafid Bouazza / Henriëtte Louwerse -- About the (non-)existence of migrant literature in the Netherlands, or, Why Mustafa Stitou is a Dutch author / Yves T'Sjoen -- Multiculturalism and multilingualism in contemporary prose in Flanders : Chika Unigwe, Koen Peeters, and Benno Barnard / Sarah De Mul and Thomas Ernst -- Conclusion : a comparative view / Wolfgang Behschnitt, Sarah De Mul, and Liesbeth Minnaard.
Summary:
"This book not only offers a comprehensive theoretical and methodological analysis of multilingualism and multicultural literature, but also provides overviews sketching the discourse on multiculturalism, language and the development of the literary field in Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Flanders. Besides it presents a broad range of in-depth analyses of selected literary texts from each of these countries"--Page 4 of cover.
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