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Nordic Utopias and Dystopias : From Aniara to Allatta! / edited by Pia Maria Ahlbäck, Jouni Teittinen, and Maria Lassén-Seger.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- FILLM studies in languages and literatures ; Volume 17.
- FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures Series ; Volume 17
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Utopias in literature.
- Dystopias in literature.
- Scandinavian literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Scandinavian literature.
- Scandinavian literature--21st century--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (268 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2023]
- Summary:
- Through the varied subjects -- ranging from avant-garde literature and long poems to noir TV-series, young adult fiction, popular historiography, and political discourse in literature outside of Norden -- the volume brings forth a historically rich, multi-layered picture of social, cultural and environmental imagination in the Nordic countries.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Nordic Utopias and Dystopias
- Editorial page
- FILLM Advisory Board
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- Series editor's preface
- Introduction
- The Nordic, "Norden," the North
- Shifts in dystopian imagination
- The structure of the book
- References
- Part 1. Nordic welfare state utopianism
- From Niels Klim to Björk's Utopia: Some historical and present trajectories of utopia and dystopia in the Nordic tradition
- "Project Norden"
- Subterranean utopias: A sacred geography
- The Anthropocene
- Acknowledgements
- Crisis after utopia: Intellectuals, academics and the Scandinavian debate on utopia at the turn of the 1980s: The case of the Swedish magazine KRIS
- A satirical utopia
- Nordic academics in search of utopia
- Intellectuals without fixed utopias
- Utopianism reinstated: The fall and rise of a society in Zombie city
- Critical utopia and transformative utopianism
- The grand narrative of zombie fiction
- Zombie City and the welfare state
- Re-negotiating the future
- Conclusion
- An ethnographic account of the Nordic utopia in Scotland
- The Nordic Noir Book Club: A case study
- Members' views
- The crime genre
- Utopia: The good and the non-existent
- A political vision
- Scotland and the Nordic region: A hand in glove?
- The darker side of the Nordic region
- Part 2. Nature in transformation
- Creeping into the present: Iida Rauma's Seksistä ja matematiikasta as eco-dystopian realism
- The realist novel in the age of global environmental issues
- Living towards extinction
- Ordering of the world
- Snowy state: The children's history of Sweden
- History
- The idea of North
- Book one: When the People Arrived
- Book two: Look there, a Town!.
- Book three: When Sweden Was at Its Greatest
- Book four: When the Swedes Moved to Town
- Frozen futures or tropical Greenland?: Climate change arctopias in Cold Earth and Allatta! 2040
- Arctic utopia and dystopia
- Beyond apocalypse: Cold Earth as climate change dystopia
- Arctopias from Greenland: From Cold Earth to Allatta! 2040 (2015)
- Children of the district: Pastoral and the welfare state in Monika Fagerholm's The End of the Glitter Scene novels
- An unattainable ideal: The district and the Nordic welfare state as dark pastoral milieus
- "When the summer throws you away": Pastoral and the otherness of children as a critique of the Western child
- "The district hates itself": The end of the glitter scene novels as a description of the Finland-Swedish minority's self-conception
- Part 3. Confronting dystopian futures
- Harry Martinson's Aniara as a Menippean satire for the Anthropocene
- Nuclear threat and destruction
- Mima, Mimaroben and Isagel
- An end and perhaps a beginning
- Who is in power, you say?: Two young adult dystopias from modern day Scandinavia
- Exploration of power and reflections on history
- Relations and growth in a new world
- Hero-figures and story structure in the two worlds
- Criticising society without a society: Dystopia in a vacuum
- The implied audience and power
- Remembering in the age of global warming: Emmi Itäranta's Memory of Water as ecological trauma fiction
- Traces of a throwaway society
- Water and vulnerability
- Entanglements of human and non-human worlds
- Space for love or arts of living on a damaged planet: Dystopia and utopia in novels by Karin Boye, Johanna Nilsson and Johanna Sinisalo.
- The green depth: A space of love and resistance
- Karin Boye's legacy: Johanna Nilsson's det grönare djupet (2015)
- Johanna Sinisalo's Auringon ydin
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 90-272-5729-9
- OCLC:
- 1350447163
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