The not-quite child : colonial histories, racialization, and Swedish exceptionalism / Liina-Ly Roos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roos, Liina-Ly, Author.

Series:

New directions in Scandinavian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Sweden--Social conditions.

Children.

Children in popular culture--Sweden--History.

Children in popular culture.

Physical Description:

x, 181 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2025]

Summary:

"The figure of the child has played a significant role in constituting both the self-image and international reputation of Sweden from Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Longstocking (1945), centered around a competent, irreverent, autonomous child with high morals, to young Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg, represented in media as a young fierce child who reprimands the adults for their inaction on the climate crisis. In The Not-Quite Child, Liina-Ly Roos analyses the construction of the normative coming-of-age trajectory through film and literature depicting alternative, marginalized childhood in Sweden"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Childhood and the Not-Quite Child in Sweden

Imagining Racialization and Whiteness Through the Child Who Lines Up

Failing Childhood and Rethinking Growing Up Swedish

Unsettling the Figure of the Not-Quite Child

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-174) and index.

ISBN:

9780295753812

0295753811

9780295753829

029575382X

OCLC:

1463663348