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I Guds Namn. Migration och främlingskap i Lennart Hager fors Längta hem. Om ett missionärsbarn i Kongo
Full text linkIn this article I analyze the autobiographical novel Längta hem. Om ett missionärsbarn i Kongo (2003) by Lennart Hagerfors in order to understand how otherness is presented and how it is linked to the status of migration and being Swedish. I argue that the novel shows two distinct forms of otherness. The first is on the personal and individual level of the protagonist that is caused by his migration from Sweden to Congo. The other is on a cultural and national level, which situates Sweden in between the Congolese and French culture. While the first personal form of strangeness is viewed as problematic and must be overcome, the second form can be read as an expression of the positive Swedish self-image that situates Sweden outside of Europe’s colonial history and therefore posits Sweden as a type of humanitarian Great Power or global conscience
Mellem det (post)koloniale, det (post)nationale og det globale: en analyse af Niviaq Korneliussens HOMO sapienne
Full text linkThe paper presents a close-reading of the Greenlandic author Niviaq Korneliussen’s novel Homo sapienne (2014) with the aim of answering the question, whether it can be defined as a postnational or a migration novel, according to the definitions presented by Elisabeth Oxfeldt and Søren Frank. To this end four different categories: the hybrid, the (post)colonial, the national and the global are applied in the analysis with the primary focus on examining how the dominating narratives of Greenlandicness are confirmed, challenged or rejected in the novel, as well as how the novel’s language, structure and narrative strategies not only contribute to a new understanding of the genre, but of the issues in question in general
“Talking” containers. Visual heterotopias in the picture¬books illustrated by Svein Nyhus
Full text linkThe article discusses picturebooks illustrated by a Norwegian artist, Svein Nyhus, to show his specific symbolic manner of depicting the child’s environment. It is argued that the illustrator employs characteristic recurrent elements of home representations and elaborates an interesting interplay of outer and inner spaces, consistently focusing the child’s perspective. This is demonstrated by an analysis of four picturebooks by the Norwegian artist: Pappa! (1998, Daddy!), Snill (2002, Nice), Sinna mann (2003, Angry Man) and Håret till mamma (2007, Mum’s Hair). The books have been regarded as ambitious literature for children, addressing difficult issues or even sometimes breaking a taboo. To show Nyhus’ visual method of thematising childhood’s traumas in relation to a home space is also one of the aims of the paper. The analysis of visual content is carried out with references to the textual narratives, drawing on ideas about heterotopia by Michel Foucault (1984), self-effacement by Karen Horney (1997) and the poetics of space by Gaston Bachelard (1969)
Setninger i norsk og polsk – definisjoner og inndelinger
Full text linkIn this article we give a brief summary of how Norwegian and Polish sentences are classified in the widely acknowledged grammar books. Therefore, we review the definitions of sentences in both languages, and compare the various classifications applied in Norwegian and Polish. Additionally, much focus is given to classification of sub clauses, which happen to be differently characterized in the respective languages. We would claim that there is a significant bias regarding features that determine classification of sub clauses in Norwegian and Polish. While in Norwegian a lot of emphasis is put on structural features, focusing on how particular units are organized within a sentence, the Polish classifications seem more semantic-oriented. As far as grammatical terms are concerned, Norwegian is featured by far more notions that might yield intransparency for a Polish learner or grammarian. On the other hand, the Norwegian classifications seem far more transparent. Due to a lack of 1-1 relation between terms used in Norwegian and Polish, we cater for this need by providing terms applicable for both languages. We believe that this may come into useful for all who try to systematize their knowledge about sentences in both languages
På spaning efter den gräns som flytt. Gränsbegrepp i modern svensk poesi baserande på dikter av Katarina Frostenson och Stig
No full textThe word „limit" has become one of the keywords of modern Swedish poetry, in which it is connected with different poetic determinants. An analysis of the poetry of Katarina Frostenson and Stig Larsson leads to the conclusion that in this age of deconstruction, inter-textuality and postmodemism, among other new literary phenomena, poetry as art has lost its traditional limits. The modern Swedish poets aim at achieving absolute freedom of poetic language, now separated from the outside, non-literary world. They try to prove that meaning is no longer explicitely defined. The poetry of Katarina Frostenson and Stig Larsson attempts to abolish the separation between the persona of the speaker and the world, between the subject and the object.The word „limit" has become one of the keywords of modern Swedish poetry, in which it is connected with different poetic determinants. An analysis of the poetry of Katarina Frostenson and Stig Larsson leads to the conclusion that in this age of deconstruction, inter-textuality and postmodemism, among other new literary phenomena, poetry as art has lost its traditional limits. The modern Swedish poets aim at achieving absolute freedom of poetic language, now separated from the outside, non-literary world. They try to prove that meaning is no longer explicitely defined. The poetry of Katarina Frostenson and Stig Larsson attempts to abolish the separation between the persona of the speaker and the world, between the subject and the object
Dagny Juel o g Stanisław Przybyszewski - \u27kulturarbeidere\u27 for Norgeog Polen
Full text linkThe article is an attempt to present Dagny Juel and Stanisław Przybyszewski’s role in strenghtening the cultural links between Norway and Poland. The Przybyszewskis’ contacts with Edvard Munch, Gustav Vigeland and other Scandinavian artists from the “Zum schwarzen Ferkel” tavern in Berlin and the Kristiania (Oslo) circles have been portrayed. The couple, promoting links among the bohemian artists as well as through their translation work, exerted a paramount impact on shaping the cultural life of Central Europe. What is more, the life of those extraordinary personalities proved to be a source of inspiration for numerous Polish and Norwegian artists. The article includes information about paintings and sculptures presenting Dagny Juel and her husband
Smoking in Moominvalley – or, Why Moominpappa and Snufkin Have Pipes
Full text linkThe article analyzes Tove Jansson’s Moomin novels in terms of the representations of pipe smoking. The analysis focuses on three characters from the novels: Moominpappa, Snufkin, and the Joxter. The theoretic framework of the analysis is called “the semiotics of tobacco”. In this context, tobacco is regarded as a sign of the cultural sign-system, and thus what is exactly analyzed are the cultural meanings of tobacco in the Moomin novels.The article analyzes Tove Jansson’s Moomin novels in terms of the representations of pipe smoking. The analysis focuses on three characters from the novels: Moominpappa, Snufkin, and the Joxter. The theoretic framework of the analysis is called “the semiotics of tobacco”. In this context, tobacco is regarded as a sign of the cultural sign-system, and thus what is exactly analyzed are the cultural meanings of tobacco in the Moomin novels