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- Nilsson, Magnus
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Den moderne Ivar Lo-Johansson: Modernisering, modernitet och modernism i statarromanerna
- 2003
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation examines the modernity of the Swedish proletarian author Ivar Lo-Johansson (1901-1990), as manifested in the so-called 'statare' novels: Godnatt, jord (Breaking Free, 1933), Bara en mor (Only a Mother, 1939), and Traktorn (1943). The dissertation examines, on the one hand, modernisation and modernity as the topoi of these novels, and on the other, how the author relates to the literary tendency that has come to signify the aesthetic modernisation of the 20th century, i.e. modernism. The theoretical basis of the dissertation is Marxist. The primary source of inspiration has been the model for a Marxist hermeneutics presented by Fredric Jameson in The Political Unconscious, comprising three levels of textual interpretation: the text is read, first, as an historical allegory, and second, as a statement within a class-related discourse, and, finally, in relation to the transformation of the modes of production. The accounts in the novels of modernisation and modernity are first close read and then studied in a historical context. Then the aesthetics of the novels are related to modernism. The account of modernisation and modernity in the novels is found to be fundamentally embracing, even if the negative or threatening aspects of modern society are never downplayed by the author. This position is founded in Lo-Johansson’s socialist outlook, according to which the labour movement guarantees the fulfilment of modernity’s utopian promises and avoidance of its dangers. This view is expressed by Lo-Johansson in a critical dialogue with other contemporary accounts, literary and non-literary, of modernity and modernisation. This dialogue is examined historically with the aid of Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of dialogue and Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony, as interpreted by Raymond Williams and other Marxist critics. First, Lo-Johansson's relationship to other literary responses to modernity and modernisation – mainly primitivism and socialist realism – is examined. Then, the 'statare' novels are related to non-literary modernist discourses, such as the ideology of the social democratic welfare state and the ideas about the new woman and the new youth. The description of the relation between the aesthetics in the 'statare' novels and modernism is focussed on the term 'social modernism'. This term was coined by Michael Denning and it signifies an attempt to redirect modernist aesthetics away from the abandonment of political, avant-garde ideals as well as the celebration of artistic autonomy, by establishing contacts with extra-literary movements who aim for a change of society. Avant-gardist and social modernist ideas were propagated in Sweden in the interwar period by socialist critics such as Ture Nerman and Arnold Ljungdal. That Lo-Johansson embraces similar ideals is showed in an analysis of three constitutive components of the aesthetics of the 'statare' novels: polyphony, facticity, and the grotesque. These stylistic traits are placed within a modernist context through comparison to the social modernist American documentarism of the 1930s , as well as to different examples of experimental modernism, such as the American non-fiction novel and the nouveau roman.
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Från bruket till Yarden : nordiska perspektiv på arbetarlitteratur
- 2014
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I denna antologi uppmärksammas såväl äldre som nyare arbetarlitteratur från flera av de nordiska länderna. Dessutom anläggs en rad olika teoretiska och metodologiska perspektiv på arbetarlitteraturen. Snarare än att ge en samlad bild av den nordiska arbetarlitteraturen försöker antologin alltså visa upp denna litteraturs många fasetter och den mångfald som präglar forskningen om den.
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- Nilsson, Magnus
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En ny generation – en förnyad tradition? Klasspolitiska strategier i samtida svenskspråkig arbetarlitteratur
- 2014
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Ingår i: Samlaren. - Uppsala : Svenska Litteratursällskapet. - 0348-6133 .- 2002-3871. ; 135, s. 100-128
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Magnus Nilsson, School of Arts and Communication, Malmö UniversityA New Generation – An Innovated Tradition? Strategies of Class Politics in Contemporary Swedish-Language Working-Class Literature (En ny generation – en förnyad tradition? Klasspolitiska strategier i samtida svenskspråkig arbetarlitteratur)The aim of this article is to analyze how the emergence in recent years of a new generation of working-class writers has contributed to the development of the tradition of Swedish working-class literature. First, I investigate these writers’ representations of class and class injustice. Thereafter, I discuss how the attempts by contemporary working-class writers to innovate the tradition of working-class literature, by breaking with the realism usually considered to be its aesthetic backbone, have made it possible to use this tradition as a platform for literary critique of class injustice.
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- Nilsson, Magnus
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Litteratur, etnicitet och föreställningen om det mångkulturella samhället
- 2008
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Ingår i: Samlaren. - Uppsala : Svenska Litteratursällskapet. - 0348-6133 .- 2002-3871. ; 129, s. 270-304
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Magnus Nilsson, Litteratur, etnicitet och föreställningen om det mångkulturella samhället. (Literature, Ethnicity and the Idea of the Multicultural Society.) The aim of this article is to problematize the premises underlying the reception of the so-called “second generation immigrant writers” in the contemporary Swedish literary field. This reception, as well as the production of “immigrant literature”, is closely related to an emerging national self image in which Sweden has become a “multicultural society”. The idea that Sweden has become multicultural has generated a growing interest in, and a positive valuation of, “immigrant literature”. In addition, this literature has become an important “source” for the conception of Sweden as a “multicultural society”. Against this background I critique the reception of the “second generation immigrant writers”. To begin with I criticize the presumption that “immigrant literature” is first and foremost an expression of ethnic identity. I argue that this presumption — which constitutes the central mediator between the phenomenon “immigrant literature” and the idea that Sweden has become a “multicultural society” — results in an ethnification of literature written by “immigrants”, which, ultimately, is racializing and/or racist. Secondly I analyze the position(s) offered to ethnified writers in the literary field. This analysis is founded on the hypothesis that the cultural capital “exotic ethnicity” has become legitimized as symbolic capital within the literary field. I argue that this has called into existence a new, ethnically defined, position within this field, namely that of the “immigrant writer”. Further, I argue that this position is deeply problematic because it puts great restraints on the possible trajectories within the field of those writers who occupy it.
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