La Suède, un modèle littéraire en voie d’autonomie?: Les enjeux de l’importation de la littérature de langue française en Suède au XXIe siècle. [Sweden, a literary model in the process of autonomy? The import issues of French languge literature in Sweden in XXI century.]

• This study offers an in-depth analysis of the reception in the Swedish daily press (2010–2014) of three Francophone authors: Crowther, Taïa, and Thúy. Through a new approach combining concepts like consecrational transfers (Casanova), cultural transfer (Espagne), and ideologic functions (Moura), the analysis reveals Sweden’s efforts to become a consecrating pole. Firstly, while stressing the “difference” as a principal feature of the commented literature, Sweden tries to foreground its own national project to jointly promote diversity, migrancy and cohesion. Secondly, comparing the Francophone literature with its own, Swedish critics manage to consecrate literature from another dominated country. Finally, comparisons with more international references leave space for self-consecration and access to a more dominant position on the market. Thus, the transmitted literature is less at stake than the receiving country’s own image.

Subject headings

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Reception; consecration; transnational circulation; Francophone literature; literary criticism in Sweden; symbolic capital

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

art (subject category)