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
Pages	41-61
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:	This article analyzes how the thematization of childhood (childhood as a motif, as well as the use of narrative focalization through a child) is used in the cultural construction of class in Swedish working-class literature from the 1930s, exemplified by Ivar Lo-Johansson’s Godnatt, jord (1933), Moa Martinson’s Mor gifter sig (1936), and Eyvind Johnson’s Romanen om Olof (1934–37). The main argument is that in these novels, the child symbolizes a working class that is subjected to injustice, but also has the potential to put an end to this injustice. Thus, the child also represents the working-class writer’s subordinate-yet-vivacious position in the field of literature.
Swedish abstract:	I artikeln undersöks hur tematiseringen av barnet (barnet som motiv såväl som anläggandet av ett barns perspektiv på världen) bidrar till den kulturella produktionen av klass i svensk arbetarlitteratur från 1930-talet, exemelfierad av Ivar Lo-Johanssons Godnatt, jord (1933), Moa Martinsons Mor gifter sig (1936) och Eyvind Johnsons Romanen om Olof (1934-37). Vår huvudtes är att barnet i dessa romaner symboliserar en arbetarklass som är utsatt för orättvisor, men som också har förmågan att bekämpa dessa. Därigenom representerar barnet också arbetarförfattarens position - "underordnad men vital och modern" - i det litterära fältet.

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