
Utskrift från Malmö universitet - mau.se
Utskrift från Malmö universitet - mau.se
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Publication | Book |
Title | Literature and class : aesthetical-political strategies in modern Swedish working-class literature |
Author | |
Date | 2014 |
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. | |
Link | http://www.ni.hu-berlin.de/publ/publikationsreihen... (external link to publication) |
Publisher | Humboldt-universität |
Series/Issue | Berliner Beiträge zur Skandinavistik;21 |
ISSN | 0933-4009 |
ISBN | 978-3-932406-36-2 |
Language | eng (iso) |
Subject | working-class literature arbetarlitteratur Swedish literature svensk litteratur Marxist literary theory marxistisk litteraturteori Folke Fridell Göran Palm Kristian Lundberg Günter Wallraff Max von der Grün German working-class literature tysk arbetarlitteratur Arbeiterliteratur Werkkreis Literatur der Arbeitswelt Humanities/Social Sciences Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION |
Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/2043/17040 Permalink to this page |
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