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Matthew James Driscoll and Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir, eds. 66 Manuscripts from the Arnamagnæan Collection.
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Kjeld Abell’s Den blå pekingeser: Introduction and Translation
Get PDFABSTRACT: This is the first English translation of Kjeld Abell’s Den blå pekingeser [The Blue Pekinese], which was first published and performed in 1954. The introduction is a reprint of
an entry on Kjeld Abell by the translator, originally published in volume 214 of the
Dictionary of Literary Biography (1999). The play is in two parts, indicated by the fall of the curtain at the end
of act 1. Although there are eleven characters, almost the entire play takes place
in the mind of André, who enters the Café Bern at the beginning and leaves it with
his wife Marianne before the final curtain. With its virtuosic use of theatre space
and a unique soundscape, Den blå pekingeser remains a classic of modern Danish drama
Johan Östling. Sweden after Nazism: Politics and Culture in the Wake of the Second World War.
No full textSoldiers and Other Monsters: the Allied Occupation in Icelandic Fiction
Get PDFABSTRACT: Wars and arms long remained a foreign phenomenon in Iceland until the country
was occupied by Allied forces during WWII. Although the occupation was a “friendly” one and the army brought unprecedented wealth to the country, the presence of a foreign
military was objectionable and distressing to many. Literature, historiography, and
scholarship on the occupation have long been obsessed with the so-called ástandskonan (woman fraternizing with soldiers), the perceived incarnation of an invaded and polluted
nation. This article examines the response of Icelandic fiction writers to the occupation
through the figure of the soldier instead. A focus on fictional representations of
the soldier enables us to see how writers imagine the occupation and its consequences
for the nation, its culture, and, not least, for an injured sense of manhood
The Flight of the Danish Jews in 1943 – “Rescue” or “Escape”?
Get PDFABSTRACT: For 70 years the flight of the Danish Jews to Sweden in 1943 has most commonly
been referred to as “the rescue of the Danish Jews,” while similar events from that time have been referred to as “escapes.” This terminology comes at the expense of a historically accurate portrayal of the
decisions and actions of the Danish Jews during September/October 1943. “Rescue” and “escape” have different connotations, and those differences have consequences when applied
to historical events. This article examines the use of these two terms in historical
narratives, the forces behind them, and their impacts. Where this article turns to
the discussion of popular and scholarly literature, the author has examined both texts
and their book covers
Barry Forshaw. Nordic Noir: The Pocket Essential Guide to Scandinavian Crime Fiction, Film & TV.
No full textFrom Silence to Historical Consciousness: The Holocaust and WWII in Finnish History Politics
Get PDFABSTRACT: Despite the fact that there are similar trajectories and turning points
between Finland’s and other European countries’ responses to the Holocaust, it is
still the case that trends in Holocaust studies and key debates within the field have
had less impact on Finnish understanding of the Holocaust than one might suspect.
Instead, as this article examines, the way in which Finland’s Holocaust awareness
has been developing since the end of the war in general, and in the 2000s in particular,
has been intimately linked with the Finnish understanding of its own role in WWII.
This tendency was most clearly illustrated in the controversy that took place during
2003 and 2004 with the publication of Elina Sana’s book Luovutetut [The Extradited]
Nordic Border Crossings: Coastal Communities and Connected Cultures in Eighteenth-Century Norway, Scotland, and Canada
Get PDFABSTRACT: Coastal cultures form a complex area of research, offering new opportunities
to investigate and understand the history of cultural encounters and transnational
“regions of culture” across the Northern peripheries. This article investigates the connected cultures
of coastal communities of Norway, Scotland, and Canada after 1700. A shared, diverse,
but similarly sea-focused cultural landscape exists across the North that informs
the way in which regional cultural identities are formed and maintained. Using new
methodologies of cultural transfer such as entangled histories or histoire croisée, this article pays particular attention to the creation of transient cross-cultural
networks and regions stimulated by trade and related contacts across the North Sea
and the North Atlantic