Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality [Paperback]

This open access collection offers a detailed mapping of recent Nordic literature and its different genres (fiction, poetry, and childrens literature) through the perspective of spatiality. Concentrating on contemporary Nordic literature, the book presents a distinctive view on the spatial turn and widens the understanding of Nordic literature outside of canonized authors. Examining literatures by Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish authors, the chapters investigate a recurrent theme of social criticism and analyze this criticism against the welfare state and power hierarchies in spatial terms. The chapters explore various narrative worlds and spacesfrom the urban to parks and forests, from textual spaces to spatial thematics, studying these spatial features in relation to the problems of late modernity.

1. Introduction:  Storied Spaces of Contemporary Nordic Literature.- Part I Whose Place Is This Anyway? On the Social Uses of Space and Power.- 2. On the Commons: A Geocritical Reading of Amager F?lled.- 3. Mapping a Postmodern Dystopia: Hassan Loo Sattarvandis Construction of a Swedish Suburb.- 4. Living Side by Side in an Individualized Society: Home, Place, and Social Relations in Late Modern Swedish-Language Picturebooks.- Part II Where Do You Feel? Spaces, Emotions, and Technology.- 5. Love, Longing, and the Smartphone: Lena Andersson, Vigdis Hjorth and Hanne ?rstavik.- 6. Never Give Up Hopelessness!?: Emotions and Spatiality in Contemporary Finnish Experimental Poetry.- Part III Which Language Do You Use? Spaces of Language and Text.- 7. Stavanger, Pre- and Postmodern: ?yvind Rimbereids Poetry and  the Tradition of Topographic Verse.- 8. The Poetics of Blank Spaces and Intervals in Selected Works of Elisabeth Rynell.- 9. What Have They Done to My Song? Recycled Language lã"