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Etnicitet på det svenska litterära fältet

Rojas, Antonia LU (2021) FBMK12 20211
Division of Publishing Studies
Abstract
The thesis proposes to examine the material and symbolic production of the bestsellers: Ett öga rött (2003) by Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Jag är Zlatan Ibrahimović: min historia (2011) by Zlatan Ibrahimović and David Lagercrantz, and Yahya Hassan: dikter (2014) by Yahya Hassan. The problem of investigation posed is: How does assumptions about ethnicity intersect with the publication of these bestsellers?
Using Gerard Genette’s paratextual method the thesis analyzes conditions of production, marketing, and reception.
The theoretical underpinnings are mainly Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of literary field, Magnus Nilsson’s concept of the multicultural imaginary and Graham Huggan’s theory of commodification of the exotic.
It is shown that the... (More)
The thesis proposes to examine the material and symbolic production of the bestsellers: Ett öga rött (2003) by Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Jag är Zlatan Ibrahimović: min historia (2011) by Zlatan Ibrahimović and David Lagercrantz, and Yahya Hassan: dikter (2014) by Yahya Hassan. The problem of investigation posed is: How does assumptions about ethnicity intersect with the publication of these bestsellers?
Using Gerard Genette’s paratextual method the thesis analyzes conditions of production, marketing, and reception.
The theoretical underpinnings are mainly Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of literary field, Magnus Nilsson’s concept of the multicultural imaginary and Graham Huggan’s theory of commodification of the exotic.
It is shown that the commodification of the exotic and commodification of the authentic has implications on authors and their cultural products in the literary cultural field, along exotifying and gendered lines. Agents of the field are conditioned in terms of economic and cultural capital where the author can either adopt or reject the exotifying discourses, resulting in very different outcomes. (Less)
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author
Rojas, Antonia LU
supervisor
organization
course
FBMK12 20211
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Pierre Bourdieu, Yahya Hassan, Yahya Hassan: dikter, Zlatan Ibrahimović, David Lagercrantz, Jag är Zlatan Ibrahimović: min historia, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Ett öga rött, etnicitet, litterärt fält, exotism, bokmarknad
language
Swedish
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9056825
date added to LUP
2021-06-22 08:57:24
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2021-06-22 08:57:24
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  abstract     = {{The thesis proposes to examine the material and symbolic production of the bestsellers: Ett öga rött (2003) by Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Jag är Zlatan Ibrahimović: min historia (2011) by Zlatan Ibrahimović and David Lagercrantz, and Yahya Hassan: dikter (2014) by Yahya Hassan. The problem of investigation posed is: How does assumptions about ethnicity intersect with the publication of these bestsellers?
Using Gerard Genette’s paratextual method the thesis analyzes conditions of production, marketing, and reception.
The theoretical underpinnings are mainly Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of literary field, Magnus Nilsson’s concept of the multicultural imaginary and Graham Huggan’s theory of commodification of the exotic.
It is shown that the commodification of the exotic and commodification of the authentic has implications on authors and their cultural products in the literary cultural field, along exotifying and gendered lines. Agents of the field are conditioned in terms of economic and cultural capital where the author can either adopt or reject the exotifying discourses, resulting in very different outcomes.}},
  author       = {{Rojas, Antonia}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Etnicitet på det svenska litterära fältet}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}