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We Are A Song the Band Doesn't Play : Systematic Systemic Critique in Contemporary Swedish Poetry

Friis, Elisabeth LU (2022) In A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 41. p.400-414
Abstract
This article looks at three Swedish books of poetry from this century: Johan Jönson’s Efter arbetsschema (2008), UKON’s Brukaren (2011) and Lars Mikael Raattamaa’s Kommunismen (2015). What these books share is a combination of an explicit critique of life in the late capitalist (Scandinavian) welfare state and an experimental, perhaps post-poetic, practice based on seriality and quotation. Another shared feature is their insistence on an explication of the text’s positions of enunciation. Where the voice is coming from is just as important as the utterance – perhaps even more so.
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A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries Since 1975
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A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries
editor
Hjartarson, Benedikt ; Skovbjerg Paldam, Camilla ; Schultz, Laura Luise and Ørum, Tania
volume
41
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14 pages
publisher
Brill
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2214-0808
2214-0816
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978-90-04-44456-0
978-90-04-51595-6
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10.1163/9789004515956_028
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English
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