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- Harris, Ashleigh, 1976-, et al.
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African Street Literature : A Method for an Emergent Form Beyond World Literature
- 2020
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Ingår i: Research in African Literatures. - : Indiana University Press. - 0034-5210 .- 1527-2044. ; 51:2, s. 1-26
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper begins with the assertion that world literature is in danger of becoming a closed system, whereby literature anticipates its critical reception in both its form and content. Emergent African literary forms are often excluded from the field of world literature precisely because they demand methods of reading that challenge this anticipatory logic. We refer to this emergent literature circulating in African urban spaces as "African street literature." This paper focuses on three such street forms: ephemeral print literature, flash fiction, and spoken word poetry. In all three cases, the literary form registers its situated-ness, and as such its location is co-constructive of the field of the literary text. The methodological intervention that the paper makes explores ways of reading context, material, form, and content as combined and codetermining without losing attention to the literariness of the text under examination.
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Changing Satire : Transformations and Continuities in Europe, 1600–1830
- 2022
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- This edited collection brings together literary scholars and art historians, and maps how satire became a less genre-driven and increasingly visual medium in the seventeenth through the early nineteenth century. Changing satire demonstrates how satire proliferated in various formats, and discusses a wide range of material from canonical authors like Swift to little known manuscript sources and prints. As the book emphasises, satire was a frame of reference for well-known authors and artists ranging from Milton to Bernini and Goya. It was moreover a broad European phenomenon: while the book focuses on English satire, it also considers France, Italy, The Netherlands and Spain, and discusses how satirical texts and artwork could move between countries and languages. In its wide sweep across time and formats, Changing satire brings out the importance that satire had as a transgressor of borders.
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- Hållén, Nicklas, 1983-
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"Can't seem to live without it somehow" : An interview with Eddy Harris
- 2014
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Ingår i: Studies in Travel Writing. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1364-5145 .- 1755-7550. ; 18:3, s. 279-294
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In his books about Paris and Harlem and his travelogues about journeys in Africa and the American South, African-American author Eddy L. Harris explores what it means to be Black in the present moment in history. In this interview, he talks to Nicklas Hållén about his need to travel, the craft of travel writing and his plans for a movie project about a journey down the Mississippi River. The conversation revolves particularly around his travelogue Native Stranger: A Blackamerican's Journey into the Heart of Africa (1992) and the way in which identity conditions (and does not condition) travel and travel writing, and the functions that travel writing may have for the author as well as reader. The interview was conducted in the summer of 2013 at a café in the village of Pranzac in the Charente department of France, where Harris currently lives and works.
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- Hållén, Nicklas, 1983-, et al.
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“You want people to see you in all your nuanced variety” : An Interview with Noo Saro-Wiwa
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Ingår i: Studies in Travel Writing. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1364-5145 .- 1755-7550. ; 19:3, s. 274-282
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Born in Nigeria in 1976, Noo Saro-Wiwa grew up in the UK. In 2008 she took a trip around the country of her birth. The journey resulted in her first book, Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria (Granta, 2012). It was selected as BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week and the Sunday Times Travel Book of the Year in 2012. In this interview with Nicklas Hållén and Janet Remmington, Saro-Wiwa covers a range of topics and reflections, including (trans)national identities, readership and reception, the legacy of her father, Ken Saro-Wiwa, and the craft of travel writing. The interview incorporates questions and answers from two occasions: a face-to-face meeting in London in May 2014 and an audience-facing discussion at the University of York's “African Intellectual Mobilities” colloquium in February 2015.
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- Hållen, Nicklas, 1983-
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Travelling objects : modernity and materiality in British Colonial travel literature about Africa
- 2011
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This study examines the functions of objects in a selection of British colonial travel accounts about Africa. The works discussed were published between 1863 and 1908 and include travelogues by John Hanning Speke, Verney Lovett Cameron, Henry Morton Stanley, Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Ewart Scott Grogan, Mary Hall and Constance Larymore. The author argues that objects are deeply involved in the construction of pre-modern and modern spheres that the travelling subject moves between. The objects in the travel accounts are studied in relation to a contextual background of Victorian commodity and object culture, epitomised by the 1851 Great Exhibition and the birth of the modern anthropological museum. The four analysis chapters investigate the roles of objects in ethnographical and geographical writing, in ideological discussions about the transformative powers of colonial trade, and in narratives about the arrival of the book in the colonial periphery. As the analysis shows, however, objects tend not to behave as they are expected to do. Instead of marking temporal differences, descriptions of objects are typically unstable and riddled with contradictions and foreground the ambivalence that characterises colonial literature.
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- Nordenstam, Anna, 1965, et al.
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Comics craftivism : Embroidery in contemporary Swedish feminist comics
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. - : Taylor & Francis. - 2150-4857 .- 2150-4865. ; 13:2, s. 174-192
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- The aim of this article is to analyse contemporary feminist comics by the Swedish comics artists Åsa Grennvall/Schagerström, Lotta Sjöberg and Sara Granér in relation to the ongoing movement called craftivism, as defined by Betsy Greer and her fellow crafters. The article argues that embroidered feminist comics can be regarded as comics craftivism, since, although similar to drawings, they are all sewn by needle and thread, and often thematise topics connected to craftivism’s ideas concerning ‘raising consciousness, creating a better world stitch by stitch’. The comics artists use embroidered comics to create ‘wider conversations about uncomfortable issues’, e.g. feminist issues, such as being trapped in a violent relationship as in Schagerström’s cover image for Svinet [The Swine], or the unequal sharing of household work in Sjöberg’s sequential story in Det kan alltid bli värre. [It can always get worse]. The feminist, craftivist comics artists are engaged in the politics of the handmade – narrating through textiles. The content concerns political, environmental and gender issues. Comics craftivism contributes to the renewal of the comics medium, and while experimenting artistically with materials and techniques, practitioners thematise new ideas as well as new perspectives on lingering problems, often with irony and humour.
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- Wallin Wictorin, Margareta, 1958-, et al.
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Feminist Art History as an Approach to Research on Comics : Meta Reflections on Studies of Swedish Feminist Comics.
- 2022
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Ingår i: Seeing Comics through Art History.. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 2634-6370 .- 2634-6389. - 9783030935061 - 9783030935078 ; , s. 163-183
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- The aim of this chapter is to illuminate how the theories of the feminist art historians Linda Nochlin, Griselda Pollock and Rozsika Parker can be utilized when analysing Swedish comics. What are the potentials and the deficiencies, and what other theories and methods are needed when investigating comics from feminist perspectives? The analysis will be based on four case studies of Swedish feminist comics: “The Future in Swedish Avant-Garde Comics, 2006–2014” (2017), “Högerideologi som dansbandsmelodi. Politisk satir i svenska feministiska serier” [Right wing ideology as popular dance music. Political satire in Swedish feminist comics] (2017),“Women’s Liberation. Swedish Feminist Comics and Cartoons from the 1970s and 1980s” (2019) and “Comics Craftivism: Embroidery in Contemporary Swedish Feminist Comics” (2021). The chapter is structured according to Pollock’s three positions for feminism’s encounter with the canon, which began with the Women’s Liberation Movement in the early 1970s (Pollock, Griselda, Differencing the Canon: Feminist Desire and the Writing of Art’s Histories. Routledge, London 1999). This chapter ends with a reflection on the relevance—the potential and the deficiencies—of feminist art-historical approaches to the field of Comics Studies, and their methodological possibilities.
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