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- Granqvist, Raoul J.
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Eliot Elisofon i Sverige 1944 : spion, fotojournalist och livsnjutare
- 2011
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In: Nya Argus. - Helsingfors. - 0027-7126. ; 104:11-12, s. 294-301
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Review (peer-reviewed)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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Med matkorg och kamera på resa : Eliot Elisofon i krigets Finland 1944
- 2011
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In: Nya Argus. - Helsingfors. - 0027-7126. ; 104:9, s. 213-220
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The essay, ”Traveling with a Sack of Food and a Camera: Eliot Elisofon in Wartime Finland 1944,” is based on a war-correspondent's diary for LIFE magazine of a two-week field-trip to northern Finland at the end of September 1944. Elisofon's purpose was to document the expulsion by the Finns of the Nazi army in Lapland. I analyze his text and its conjunction with the photos, with a focus on a) Elisofon's critical views of Finnish military strategy as it developed at the skirmishes at Torneå on 3-5 October (when he was injured by German Stukas); b) on the social effects of the war on Finnish life; c) on the consolatory and compensatory impact of food (one of Elisofon's major pastimes); d) on the ethics and the technique of his photography. This is the second article in a series of three about Elisofon in Finland and Sweden (September 1939, February-November 1944).
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- Granqvist, Raoul J.
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Ngugi wa Thiong'o in/and 2006
- 2011
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In: Research in African Literatures. - : Indiana University Press. - 0034-5210 .- 1527-2044. ; 42:4, s. 124-131
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This is an essay of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's sustained performative exile in the US as it was materialized (by reviews, interviews, lectures) during the single year of 2006. It is organized along the intersecting parameters of the two-language publication (Gikuyu and English) of his novel Wizard of the Crow and the trial procedures concerning the 11 August 2004 assault on him and his wife Njeeri in a hotel room in Nairobi. I discuss the reviews as conglomerates where the participatory contributions to them are prompted by Ngugi's public readings, his interactions with the audience and the succeeding interviews. The writer emerges as an authorial reader of his own novel and an administrator of the interpretations of it. The essay, alternatively, positions the reader/critic/listener in the company of a storyteller and trickster on one hand and a political analyst and émigré biographer on the other. The author is more than a writer.
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- Granqvist, Raoul J.
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På gränsen till ett krig : Eliot Elisofon och Life i Finland 1939
- 2011
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In: Nya Argus. - Helsingfors. - 0027-7126. ; 104:5-6, s. 143-146
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The essay, ”On the Threshold of a War: Eliot Elisofon and LIFE in Finland 1939,” is a close, critical reading of the very first article (in collaboration with Thérèse Bonney) Elisofon produced for LIFE It was published on 23 October 1939, at a time drawing near to the Soviet Union attacking Finland (the Winter War). The essay's focus is on a triangular ideological dramaturgy, listing imperial, orientalist Russia threatening to invade a young underdeveloped Western state. The essay's undercover appeal of mature big-brother US is its accountableness to help. The photographs, their subtitles and literary context, underline the theme of missionary salvation. This is the first article of three about Eliot Elisofon in Sweden and Finland, in 1939 and 1944.
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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
- 2011
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In: Research in African Literatures. - Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press. - 0034-5210 .- 1527-2044. ; 42:4, s. 150-151
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Review (other academic/artistic)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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Samuel Ödmann : svensk 1700-talsöversättare med globala perspektiv
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In: Nya Argus. - Helsingfors : Ekenäs Tryckeri AB. - 0027-7126. ; 104:1-2, s. 34-37
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This essay discusses aspects of Samuel Ödmann's (1750-1829) translations/editions of about forty travel narratives. Ödmann was a Linnean by affection, professor at Upsala University, theologian, writer of hymns, and armchair traveller stuck to his sick bed for four decades. Ödmann's production has a global reach: he translated among others Jacob Cook, William Bligh, Mungo Park, Robert Norris, John White, and John Gabriel Stedman, and took a special interest in Africa. I focus on his translational and colonial methods of acculturalization and his ways of popularizing his source texts through acts of paraphrasing and editing.
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- Granqvist, Raoul J.
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The Paraphrase as a Colonial Scrapbook : Eighteenth-Century Travelogues in Swedish Translation - The Case of Samuel Ödmann
- 2011
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In: Literature, Geography, Translation. - Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing. - 1443830100 - 9781443830102 ; , s. 82-95
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The Linnean strategy of collecting, cataloguing, and defining its objects was not as resistant or immune to the subjective, moral and ideological comment as is commonly believed. This essay will discuss two aspects of Samuel Ödmann's (1750-1829) translations/editions of about forty travel narratives. Ödmann was a Linnean by affection, professor at Upsala University, theologian, writer of hymns, and armchair traveller stuck as he was to his sick bed for four decades. Ödmann's production had a global reach: he translated among others Jacob Cook, William Bligh, Mungo Park, Robert Norris, John White, and John Gabriel Stedman, and took a special interest in Africa. I discuss his translational methods of acculturalization and popularizing his source texts through acts of paraphrasing and editing and try to make sense of, what I call, his colonial homiletics of approach. I also clarify what 'Africa' constituted for him.
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- Granqvist, Raoul J.
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Vem är tjuven? Sara Lidman i ett postkolonialt Kenya
- 2011
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In: Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap. - Lund : Föreningen för utgivande av Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap. - 1104-0556 .- 2001-094X. ; :3-4, s. 91-104
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Sara Lidman wrote her second autobiographical African novel, Med fem diamanter ("With Five Diamonds"), during a prolonged sojourn in Kenya (1962-1963) where she first lived in Kisumu, in the Nyanza province, near Lake Victoria, before moving to Njeri in Gikuyland. She was accompanied by Wambui Njonjo, the country's first school inspector. The Njonjo family was close to the Kenyattas. The question in the title of the essay, “Who is the Thief? Sara Lidman in Postcolonial Kenya?”, points at the post-colonial threshold dilemma of Kenyans being both perpatrators and victims of their own fate, freed from the colonial bonds but reintroduced to economic forms of western dependence. I examine two aspects of her allegorical chronicling of Kenya 1958-1963 and the symbolic killing of Thiongo, the homosexual, by his brother Wachira, the boy pining in the servitude of both Gikuyu patriarchy and the greed of western capitalism. The two aspects relate to the dynamics and ambivalence of power. In the first section I demonstrate how 'stealing' – both as an act of aggression and one of liberation – is manifested in cultural and linguistic artefacts, in the textures of women's kangas, in a Luo legend, in Christian mission. As a postcolonial writer Lidman is unique for her time in transliterating and contextualizing (not translating) Gikuyu and Kiswahili words, proverbs and stories. In the second section I examine how 'love' or the idealization of 'love', heterosexual and homosexual, deteriorates under the pressure of 'thieving'. In Lidman's ideal world androgynity is central. Med fem diamanter is a Kenyan novel written in Swedish.
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