Literature in Multicultural and Multilingual Sweden : The Birth and Death of the Immigrant Writer

Nilsson, Magnus

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Publication	BookChapter
Title	Literature in Multicultural and Multilingual Sweden : The Birth and Death of the Immigrant Writer
Author	Nilsson, Magnus
Editor	Behschnitt, Wolfgang ; De Mul, Sarah ; Minnaard, Liesbeth
Date	2013
English abstract
The article analyzes the history of the concept of the immigrant writer in Swedish literary discourse.
Swedish abstract
Artikeln analyserar begreppet invandrarförfattares historia i svensk litteraturkritik.
Publisher	Rodopi
Host/Issue	Literature, Language, and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia and the Low Countries
Series/Issue	Textxet Studies in Comparative Literature;71
ISBN	978-90-420-3733-5
Language	swe (iso)
Subject	Swedish literature Immigrant literature Multicultural literature Multilingual literature Khemiri Bakhtiari Humanities/Social Sciences Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION
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English abstract:	The article explores the possible problems with regionalizing the history of Swedish working-class literature and dicusses their relevance for the writing of the literary history of the Ruhr-region.
Swedish abstract:	Artikeln analyserar problemen med att regionalisera den svenska arebtarlitteraturhistorien och diskuterar deras relevans för skrivandet av Ruhr-områdets litteraturhistoria.

English abstract:	Working-class literature has, at least since the 1930s, constituted a central strand in Swedish literature. Literature and class analyzes the aesthetical-political strategies for criticizing class and class injustice deployed in modern Swedish working-class literature, thereby contributing to the theoretical understanding of the relationship between literature and class, and to the development of a Marxist literary theory capable of combining literary analysis with political intervention. After introducing a framework for conceptualizing the relationship between literature and class, which draws on contemporary anti-essentialist and dialectical Marxist theory, and giving a brief presentation of the tradition of Swedish working-class literature, Literature and Class analyzes the representation of class and class injustice in works by modern Swedish working-class writers such as Folke Fridell, Göran Palm, and Kristian Lundberg. In order to highlight the specificity of their aesthetical-political strategies, these are compared with those developed by West-German working-class writers such as Max von der Grün and Günter Wallraff. Finally, the claim is made that Swedish working-class literature, because of its ability to rethink the phenomena of class and class injustice, constitutes an avant-garde in contemporary class politics.
Swedish abstract:	Boken behandlar, med utgångspunkt i marxistisk litteraturteori, hur klass skildras i modern svensk arbetarlitteratur. Särskild uppmärksamhet ägnas åt Folke Fridells Död mans hand och Greppet hårdnar, Göran Palms rapportböcker från LM Ericsson och Kristian Lundbergs Yarden. Dessutom görs jämförelser med västtysk arbetarlitteratur.

English abstract:	In this article, we compare the phenomenon of working-class literature in Sweden and the United States. After examining how working-class literatures have evolved in both countries, we analyze how they have been concep- tualized in two academic fields: contemporary U.S. working-class studies and the study of Swedish literary history. We discuss the material and historical contexts shaping these conceptualizations, critique them on theoretical grounds, and offer ways that comparative approaches help us better understand the phenomenon of working-class literature. Our main argument is that our analysis makes visible two important features of this literature. The first of these, inscribed in the very concept of the term, is that working-class literature is both a literary phenomenon and a phenomenon relating to working-class life. The second feature – a far less obvious, but not less important one – is that working-class literatures are always historically and geographically situated and, thus, assume divergent shapes in different times and locations. We argue that working-class literature as a phenomenon is, therefore, always in a process of new formations. In doing so, we move away from narrow nationalistic views of working-class literature as a defined term and, using a comparative approach, allow for new vantage points in the analysis of the relationship between class and culture.
Swedish abstract:	I artikeln jämförs svensk och amerikansk arbetarlitteratur, samt hur dessa fenomen konstruerats inom svensk litteraturvetenskap och 'new working-class studies'. Med utgångspunkt i denna jämförelse förs en teoretisk diskussion om begreppet och fenomenet arbetarlitteratur. Vi uppmärksammar framför allt två saker: 1) att arbetarlitteratur är såväl ett litterärt fenomen som ett fenomen som står i förbindelse med arbetarklassen, och 2) att arbetarlitteratur ser olika ut vid olika tidpunkter oh på olika platser.

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