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Published 2022.
The Nordic countries have long been subject to certain idealised, even utopian imaginaries, particularly about images of pristine nature and the societal ideals of democracy, equality and education. On the other hand, such ...
Published 2022.
The Nordic countries have long been subject to certain idealised, even utopian imaginaries, particularly about images of pristine nature and the societal ideals of democracy, equality and education. On the other hand, such projections inevitably invite dissent, irony and intimations of the utopia's dark underside. Things may yet take, or may have already taken, a dystopic course. The present volume offers twelve contributions on utopias and dystopias in Nordic literature and culture. Geographically, the articles cover the Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, as well as the autonomous area of Greenland. Through the articles' 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. Nordic Utopias and Dystopias is thus of interest not only to specialists in dystopian and utopian research but more broadly to scholars of literature and culture, and the political and social sciences, especially but not exclusively in the Nordic context.
