Scandinavian Literature II: Swedish and Finnish
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Poetry in the Ashes: Edith Södergran on Karelia and St. Petersburg, 1921. Marlene Broemer, Independent Scholar
Södergran’s response to the Russian Revolution and the Finnish Civil War is examined in selected poems which describe destruction and nationalism as the Russian Empire slips away and new Finnish and Russian states arise.
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Cottage to the Moon: Visual Tradition and the Politics of Exclusion. Anna Blomster, University of California, Los Angeles
The red cottage is an iconic symbol in Sweden, used on all sorts of occasions. Not least by national conservative parties as campaign material. This paper look at how the cottage works as a trope and an “invisible fence” within the construction of a broader exclusionary nationalistic ideology.
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Castration, Disfigurement, and Pissballs: Queer Subjectivity and the Swedish Vampire in John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In. Gina Hanson, California State University, San Bernardino
Considering the assertion that an era’s vampire characters are often an amalgamation of the current sociopolitical and cultural influences, this paper explores how the 2004 novel, Let the Right One In, re-interprets the vampire in relation to Swedish sexual values.
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