Maternal Abandonment And Queer Resistance In Twenty First Century Swedish Literature
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Maternal Abandonment And Queer Resistance In Twenty First Century Swedish Literature
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Author : Jenny Björklund
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-06-03
Maternal Abandonment And Queer Resistance In Twenty First Century Swedish Literature written by Jenny Björklund and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book questions why so many mothers leave their families in twenty-first-century Swedish literature, analyzing literary representations of maternal abandonment in relation to sociopolitical discourses. The volume draws on a queer-theoretical framework in order to highlight norm-critical dimensions, failure, and resistance in literature about motherhood. Jenny Björklund argues that novels about mothers who leave can be understood as ways to problematize and challenge Swedish-branded values like gender equality and a progressive family politics that promotes ideals of involved parenthood, the nuclear family, and pronatalism. The book also raises questions beyond the Swedish context about maternal ambivalence, family politics, and privilege and discusses how literature can work as resistance and provide alternatives to the current social order.
Narratives Of Motherhood And Mothering In Fiction And Life Writing
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Author : Helena Wahlström Henriksson
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-03-16
Narratives Of Motherhood And Mothering In Fiction And Life Writing written by Helena Wahlström Henriksson and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-16 with Social Science categories.
This open access volume offers original essays on how motherhood and mothering are represented in contemporary fiction and life writing across several national contexts. Providing a broad range of perspectives in terms of geopolitical places, thematic concerns, and theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches, it demonstrates the significance of literary narratives for understanding and critiquing motherhood and mothering as social phenomena and subjective experiences. The chapters contextualize motherhood and mothering in terms of their particular national and cultural location and analyze narratives about mothers who are firmly placed in one national context, as well as those who are in “in-between” positions due to migrant experiences. The contributions foreground and link together the themes central to the volume: embodied experience and maternal embodiment; notions of what is “normal” or natural (or not) about motherhood; maternal health and illness; mother-daughter relations; maternality and memory; and the (im)possibilities of giving voice to the mother. They raise questions about how motherhood and mothering are marked by absence and/or presence, as well as by profound ambivalences.
Same Sex Desire And The Environment In Norwegian Literature 1908 1979
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Author : Per Esben Svelstad
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
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Same Sex Desire And The Environment In Norwegian Literature 1908 1979 written by Per Esben Svelstad and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Men S Friendships As Feminist Politics
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Author : Klara Goedecke
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-10-29
Men S Friendships As Feminist Politics written by Klara Goedecke and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-29 with Social Science categories.
This book discusses men’s friendships in relation to queer, discursive, and intersectional feminist theories. It analyses stories of intimacy, touch, hugs, and conversations, connecting these with current discussions within feminism and critical masculinity studies on “new” men, men’s political activism, and how friendships are lived and conceptualised in relation to heteronormative relationship ideals. Drawing on individual and dyadic interviews with middle-class Swedish men, all engaged in or sympathetic to feminist issues in some sense, this volume shows that Swedish gender equality ideologies as well as feminist, therapeutic, neo-liberal, and individualist discourses prevalent in the Western world structured the men’s friendships and their engagement with gender politics. Chapters cover friendship temporalities, gendered friendship ideals, friendship as men’s politics, and friendship as performed in interaction. Bridging the literatures of feminist research and friendship, the author points to tensions and contradictions in pro-feminist men’s political projects and in contemporary masculine positions.
Migrants And Literature In Finland And Sweden
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Author : Satu Gröndahl
language : en
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
Release Date : 2018-10-11
Migrants And Literature In Finland And Sweden written by Satu Gröndahl and has been published by BoD - Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-11 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Migrants and Literature in Finland and Sweden presents new comparative perspectives on transnational literary studies. This collection provides a contribution to the production of new narratives of the nation. The focus of the contributions is contemporary fiction relating to experiences of migration. When people are in motion, it changes nations, cultures and peoples. The volume explores the ways in which transcultural connections have affected the national self-understanding in the Swedish and Finnish context. It also presents comparative aspects on the reception of literary works and explores the intersectional perspectives of identities including class, gender, ethnicity, "race" and disability. This volume discusses multicultural writing, emerging modes of writing and generic innovations. Further, it also demonstrates the complexity of grouping literatures according to nation and ethnicity. This collection is of particular interest to students and scholars in literary and Nordic studies as well as transnational and migration studies.
New Dimensions Of Diversity In Nordic Culture And Society
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Author : Jenny Björklund
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
New Dimensions Of Diversity In Nordic Culture And Society written by Jenny Björklund and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with History categories.
In the new millennium, categories of identity have become particularly destabilized with the emergence of a new generation of people in the Nordic region who demand more dynamic and fluid identities. New Dimensions of Diversity in Nordic Culture and Society reinvestigates the tired concept of â oediversityâ to make room for dynamic new realities, as well as the ample new questions to which they give rise. This volume assumes diversity to be a fundamental feature of Nordic modernity. Given that the Nordic countries consistently rank among the worldâ (TM)s wealthiest, most educated, and most egalitarian, these case studies provide important counter-narratives to prevailing local and global discourses of Nordic-ness. The contributors not only interrogate historical categories of diversity in a Nordic context, including gender, sex, class, ethnicity, and race; they also show how these categories intersect. They examine new forms of, and platforms for, diverse ideas and creative expression, including fluid masculinities, digital cultures, new media, and fashion. They question the terms on which the Nordic regionâ (TM)s indigenous peoples, the Sàmi and the Greenlandic Inuit, as well as stateless people such as the Kurds, are brought into Nordic discussions of diversity, citizenship, and agency, and analyze the implications of particular neo-nationalist and patriarchal discourses that have emerged since the turn of the century. The book draws from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and interdisciplinary fields, and will spark productive and critical conversations among all with an interest in the national and regional cultures, subcultures, and social dynamics that inform modern life in the Nordic region.
Middlebrow Matters
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Author : Diana Holmes
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018
Middlebrow Matters written by Diana Holmes and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Literary Criticism categories.
This is the first book to study the middlebrow novel in France. It asks what middlebrow means, and applies the term positively to explore the 'poetics' of the types of novel that have attracted 'ordinary' fiction readers - in their majority female - since the end of the 19th century.
Single Parents
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Author : Berit Åström
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-05-29
Single Parents written by Berit Åström and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-29 with Social Science categories.
This edited volume addresses how single mothers and fathers are represented in novels, self-help literature, daily newspapers, film and television, as well as within their own narratives in interviews on social media. With proportions varying between countries, the number of single parents has been increasing steadily since the 1970s in the Western world. Contributions to this volume analyse how various societies respond to these parents and family forms. Through a range of materials, methodologies and national perspectives, chapters make up three sections to cover single mothers, single fathers and solo mothers (single women who became parents through assisted reproductive technologies). The authors reveal that single parenthood is divided along the lines of gender and socioeconomic status, with age, sexuality and the reason for being a single parent coming into play. Chapter 11 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Ludics And Laughter As Feminist Aesthetic
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Author : Jennifer Gustar
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2021-01-20
Ludics And Laughter As Feminist Aesthetic written by Jennifer Gustar and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
Angela Carter's provocations to laughter and her enchantment with ludic narrative strategies are two key aspects of her aesthetic practice, neither of which has been the focus of sustained study. Ludics and Laughter as Feminist Aesthetic: Angela Carter at Play responds to this lacuna in Carter criticism. This international collection of eleven essays from acclaimed Carter scholars and emerging voices in the field of Carter studies seeks to reclaim play as a serious undertaking for feminist writing and scholarship and to foreground laughter as a potent affect. While Carter's work turned to comedy in the later years, from the first publication in 1966 until her last in 1992, her fiction, poetry and journalism engaged in sharp social and cultural critique; she habitually engaged this critique through ludic structures and wickedly funny narratives that challenged conventional norms and ways of thinking. Contributors explore the diverse ways in which Carter compelled a complex and often uneasy laughter by means of a controversial aesthetic that merges a persistently ludic sensibility with a biting intransigent wit. This volume draws on theories of play, surrealism, feminism, as well as studies of feminist humour and Carter's own journals and diaries to reveal the ways in which her work moves readers towards the unexpected. This volume will be of relevance both to scholars of Carter's work and of feminist humour more generally; as well, it will be of interest to students and general readers of Carter's fiction, journalism and poetry.
Introduction To Nordic Cultures
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Author : Annika Lindskog
language : en
Publisher: UCL Press
Release Date : 2020-04-17
Introduction To Nordic Cultures written by Annika Lindskog and has been published by UCL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-17 with Social Science categories.
Introduction to Nordic Cultures is an innovative, interdisciplinary introduction to Nordic history, cultures and societies from medieval times to today. The textbook spans the whole Nordic region, covering historical periods from the Viking Age to modern society, and engages with a range of subjects: from runic inscriptions on iron rings and stone monuments, via eighteenth-century scientists, Ibsen’s dramas and turn-of-the-century travel, to twentieth-century health films and the welfare state, nature ideology, Greenlandic literature, Nordic Noir, migration, ‘new’ Scandinavians, and stereotypes of the Nordic. The chapters provide fundamental knowledge and insights into the history and structures of Nordic societies, while constructing critical analyses around specific case studies that help build an informed picture of how societies grow and of the interplay between history, politics, culture, geography and people. Introduction to Nordic Cultures is a tool for understanding issues related to the Nordic region as a whole, offering the reader engaging and stimulating ways of discovering a variety of cultural expressions, historical developments and local preoccupations. The textbook is a valuable resource for undergraduate students of Scandinavian and Nordic studies, as well as students of European history, culture, literature and linguistics.