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- Granqvist, Raoul J.
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A Nineteenth‐century Finnish Reading Society and Its World Views : Commerce, Civilization and Colonialism Examined
- 2009
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Ingår i: Svensk biblioteksforskning. - Borås : Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Biblioteks- och Informationsvetenskap. - 0284-4354 .- 1653-5235. ; 17:1, s. 1-27
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The main objective of this essay is to examine the ʹworld viewsʹ of the nineteenth‐century Finnish circulatory library, ʺLäsesällskapet i Gamlakarlebyʺ that operated under mild imperial (Russian) supervision during its active period (1800‐ca 1870). For this purpose I have studied 93 beyond‐Europe books of travel and geography. I have identified two major ideological divides: a colonial that promotes ongoing aggressive Western expansion and a conciliatory one that mediates doubts and resistance. Samuel Ödmann, the translator and Uppsala professor of theology, represents the former divide; Anders Chydenius, one of the founding members, economist and clergyman, the latter. The collection engages, it is shown, the local reader of direct or indirect experiences of sailing, the ship industry and commerce which were the major trades of (Gamla)Karleby at the time. The Africa and West Indies related texts are a particularly rich feature. Slavery andt he unlucky Swedish part in colonization (Sierra Leone and St. Barthélemy) concern the readers.
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- Granqvist, Raoul J.
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Agony and Penance : Sara Lidman in South Africa 1960-1961
- 2017
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Ingår i: Current Writing. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1013-929X .- 2159-9130. ; 29:1, s. 2-15
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Swedish writer Sara Lidman (1923-2004) wrote Jag och min son ("I and My Son") after a brief stint in apartheid South Africa in 1960-61, from where she was expelled for violation of the Immorality Act. Based on a close, interrelated study of her diary, her letters and the two book manuscripts (first published in 1961; revised and re-published in 1963), I examine the colonial boundary crisis of the Self. The major protagonists in the novels or autobiographies embody, variously, aspects of the writer's angst as it developed in the Johannesburg colonial setting of persecuted ANC members, the elite of the local Swedish community, the friendship of Nadine Gordimer, and the pressure of her anticolonial frustrations.
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- Granqvist, Raoul J
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Det igenväxande Öja
- 2001
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Ingår i: Österbottningen. ; 14 augusti
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Recension (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Granqvist, Raoul J.
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Eastern and Western Africa : Transmutations, Translations, and Transgressions -- Literature in English from Nsukka, Accra, Kampala, to Nairobi, and Back
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Ingår i: Postcolonial Texts & Events. - Lund : Studentlitteratur. - 9789144070698 ; , s. 85-125
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The chapter on West- and East African literature is divided into four sections called Maps, Images, Words, and Conflict and Concord. Maps is the only section that has a clear chronological structure; the others follow no such a protocol. None of them attempts at grounding the selected texts in national spaces and cultural landscapes. The Map is a metaphor for the colonial power acquisition, its methods of surveillance and preservation and the affiliated notion of border of demarcations, crossings, and transgressions of language and culture. In the second section of Images, the focus is on the dichotomies of African writing in English, the rhetoric of 'talking back,' and the emergence of the multi-faceted expressiveness in visuality/ print/ sound. The third section of Words centres on the development of West and East African English as a cultural and controversial vernacular, as a contact language (lingua franca), Pidgin, and Rotten English – in writing and street talk. In the last section I invite writers to discuss areas of concord and conflict, war and imprisonment, on a literary personal and universal level. Women and women's writing, and children's are highlighted. The chapter problematizes normative concepts such as 'tradition,' 'ethnicity,' and 'borders' for a better understanding of the writers' choices of what topics to unearth. The English-language texts examined are not necessarily neither 'English' nor 'texts,' being hybridized, transformed, and translated in many ways. Local entrepreneurship and indigenous creativity with literary aspirations operate from the beginning in an interface with the global, where the two are enmeshed with each other to the extent that the conventional dichotomy of centre-periphery becomes an inadequate term with which to qualify the East and West-African book-market. The giants, Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Wole Soyinka, Ama Ata Aidoo and Flora Nwapa perform on the same volatile scene as the Longman Drumbeat, Macmillan’s Pacesetter series and the Spear Books thrillers.
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- Granqvist, Raoul J.
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Eliot Elisofon's Famous Portrait of a Young Chinua Achebe
- 2013
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This is a reading of Eliot Elisofon's portrait of Chinua Achebe taken in Enugu on November 16, 1959. Achebe's Things Fall Apart has recently been published. My reading of the portrait is placed in the larger context of the mission of Elisofon's travel to produce two seemingly antagonistic articles or viewpoints for LIFE magazine, one old, the second modern. The first about the Western myths of Africa, I claim, submerged the second about the independence process of Nigeria. The portrait of a young assertive Achebe is filtered by such a complexity.
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