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- Granqvist, Raoul J.
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Eliot Elisofon i Sverige 1944 : spion, fotojournalist och livsnjutare
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Ingår i: Nya Argus. - Helsingfors. - 0027-7126. ; 104:11-12, s. 294-301
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Recension (refereegranskat)abstract
- Eliot Elisofon completed his Nordic assignment after the dangerous journey to Torneå in Finland in October 1944 (where he and his colleague Nat Barrow were injured [Granqvist, Nya Argus 9, 2001, p. 213-220) and an exhibition of a selection of his photos and paintings in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö in late November. He would be hospitalized in London for some time to return to the US and new LIFE commitments. I have chosen to examine his activity in Sweden thematically, with a provisional focus on the chronology. In the first section, I discuss his political activity as a SHAEFF employed journalist; in the second his more conventional photojournalism about Swedish culture, art and tourism; and in the third, in way of a summary, his joie de vivre and its relation to photography as a documentary art form. His view of Sweden (that showed similarities with that of Finland; see Granqvist, Nya Argus 5-6 2011, p. 213-220) can be read in two ways: as a moral of American self-fulfilling do good and an image of a country at the end of the Second World War, in a cocoon of freedom.
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- Granqvist, Raoul J
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Mytologins inskränkthet
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Ingår i: Vasabladet. - : HSS Media-bolagen Ab. - 1458-4492. ; :25 september, s. 21-
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Recension (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- The ongoing mythologizing of the poet in both criticism and, as recently in a play produced by Wasa teater (Vasa), is reductive, and needs to be confronted.
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- Granqvist, Raoul J.
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Review of Mask of the Spring Water: Dance as a Source of Culture in Africa, by Birgit Åkesson
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Ingår i: Research in African Literatures. - Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press. - 0034-5210 .- 1527-2044. ; 42:4, s. 150-151
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The review of Birgit Åkesson's Dance as a Source of Culture in Africa (Dar-es-Salaam: Mkui Na Nyota, 2010; translated from Swedish, Källvattnets mask, by Rachelle Purveyor and Håkan Lövgren) emphasizes the work's groundbreaking and bold attempts at “translating” dance as initiation rites (young people, adults, community) into a hermeneutics of multiple understandings. It is an anti-book where each page may involve separate, but still allied, segments of discourse such as poetry, ethnography, photography. To this review I add a personal note of my working with Åkesson and its importance for me.
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- Granqvist, Raoul J
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Vänner och världsförfattare : Nadine Gordimer och Sara Lidman
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Ingår i: Västerbottens-Kuriren. - Umeå. ; :16 juli, s. 26-
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Recension (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- These lines are a recognition of Nadine Gordimer's and the Swedish writer Sara Lidman's life-long friendship that began in 1960 with Lidman visiting Johannesburg. Lidman's novel, Jag och min son ('I and My Son') based on her time in apartheid's South Africa, its complex thematics of guilt and fury, bears Gordimer's signature.
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