Local Labour, Cosmopolitan Toil : Geo-Cultural Dynamics in Swedish Working-Class Fiction
(2016) In Journal of World Literature 1(4). p.484-502- Abstract
- In the renowned and epoch-making working-class novels from the Swedish 1930s, claims for social and economic justice reflect a local struggle with distinctly national and cosmopolitan significance. Generally, these novels can be described as having local characters and settings, national narrative perspectives, and cosmopolitan plots, but a closer look reveals a much more varied picture. There is, in fact, no general tendency of geo-cultural dynamics in this historically distinct literary current. When the novels are translated into English, however, a more distinct pattern occurs: regional embeddedness is considerably weakened in the translation process, leaving room for much stronger national ties and a more extensive cosmopolitan... (More)
- In the renowned and epoch-making working-class novels from the Swedish 1930s, claims for social and economic justice reflect a local struggle with distinctly national and cosmopolitan significance. Generally, these novels can be described as having local characters and settings, national narrative perspectives, and cosmopolitan plots, but a closer look reveals a much more varied picture. There is, in fact, no general tendency of geo-cultural dynamics in this historically distinct literary current. When the novels are translated into English, however, a more distinct pattern occurs: regional embeddedness is considerably weakened in the translation process, leaving room for much stronger national ties and a more extensive cosmopolitan significance. (Less)
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- Tenngart, Paul LU
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- publishing date
- 2016-12
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- Contribution to journal
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- published
- subject
- keywords
- working-class fiction, Swedish literature, translation, geography, regionalism
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- Journal of World Literature
- volume
- 1
- issue
- 4
- pages
- 19 pages
- publisher
- Brill
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- scopus:85079625099
- ISSN
- 2405-6472
- DOI
- 10.1163/24056480-00104001
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- English
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- yes
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- 59832d55-98f6-455c-bbd1-35a37a654402
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title = {{Local Labour, Cosmopolitan Toil : Geo-Cultural Dynamics in Swedish Working-Class Fiction}},
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