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- Israelson, Per, 1974-
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The Last Days : Haunting futures and parasitic subjectivities in the age of media franchising
- 2019
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In: Barnelitterært forskningstidsskrift. - : Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS. - 2000-7493. ; 10:1, s. 1-12
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The dark and catastrophic futures of dystopian and post-apocalyptic YA fiction are often perceived of as critiques of late capitalist society, presenting an alternative to the status quo of what Mark Fisher once termed «capitalist realism». However, as these narratives at the same time comport according to the feedback and control mechanisms of genre conventions and popular media franchises, they also reproduce, within the system of genre and franchise structures, the very conditions under which creativity and, in extension, future worlds can emerge. The participatory aesthetics of dystopian and post-apocalyptic YA fiction, in which co-creation of other worlds is integral, here becomes a matter of adhering to the regulatory feedback of a system of control. Hence, the alternative futures presented by critical dys- topias are already lost to the capitalist present. Nevertheless, this paper argues that one possible solution to the lost futures of capitalist realism can be found in the ecological concept of sympoiesis and in a parasitic notion of subjec- tivity. Discussing Scott Westerfeld’s two novels Peeps and The Last Days, it is suggested that the future of, and for, creativity lies in the haunting of parasitic infections.
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- Widhe, Olle, 1971
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Modes of environmental imagination. The eco-movement and the representation of reality in Swedish children’s literature from 1968 to 1977
- 2019
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In: Barnelitterært forskningstidsskrift. - : Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS. - 2000-7493. ; 10:1, s. 1-16
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article investigates how emerging environmental concerns became an important part in the history of Swedish children’s literature between 1968 and 1977. The politically and socially engaged children’s books published during this period are often considered to follow a strictly realistic norm. This article, however, highlights that the alleged realistic mode of representation is countered by a political writing that allows the supernormal and magical to permeate the plot. Following this, the books analysed here display a tension between different modes of non-realistic environmental writing and challenge the common view that political children’s books of the 1970s were limited to a realistic mode. The article concludes with a discussion of how imagination in environmental children’s literature can be interpreted as a political and emancipatory force, following the thinking of Herbert Marcuse, who was one of the chief philosophers for radicals around 1968.
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- Andersson, Maria, 1973-
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Framtidens kvinna : Framställningen av kvinnlig rösträtt i två svenska flickböcker
- 2017
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In: Barnelitterært forskningstidsskrift. - : Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS. - 2000-7493. ; 8:1
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The Coming Woman: Representations of Female Suffrage in Two Swedish Books for GirlsThis article explores depictions of female suffrage and the women’s movement in two stories published for girls: Cecilia Milow’s ”Han eller hon?” (1892, Him or Her?) and Hedvig Svedenborg’s Hannas dagbok (1921, Hanna’s Diary). My aim is to analyze how representatives of the women’s movement are portrayed in the texts and how meeting these women affects the character development of the protagonist.The article shows that both narratives associate the women’s movement with modernity. In Milow’s text, the main character has to find a balance between a modern, exaggerated version of female liberation and misogynist views of women’s subordination. Svedenborg’s novel, on the other hand, contrasts different types of female modernity and emancipation, giving priority to women who combine traditionally feminine values with political work as ”mothers of society”. Despite their ideological differences, both texts address the girl reader as a future political subject by incorporating explicit discussions of women’s rights in books for girls.
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- Nilsson, Magnus
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Torben Weinreich : den socialistiske børnebog
- 2016
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In: Barnelitterært forskningstidsskrift. - : Co-Action. - 2000-7493. ; 7
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Review (other academic/artistic)abstract
- En recension av Torben Weinreichs bok "Den socialistiske børnebog" (Roskilde Universitetsforlag 2015)
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