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Vilken svensk författare motsvarar Knut Hamsun och Örnulf Tigerstedt? : Reflektioner om nazistiska diktare i Norden

Jonsson, Bibi LU (2020) Hamsun og grense/Hamsun and Borders In Nordlit 47. p.65-76
Abstract
"Which Swedish author could be compared to Yukio Mishima of Japan, Ernst Jünger of Germany and Louis-Ferdinand Céline of France?”, a Swedish debater and researcher asks in an article in 2016. To these well-known, even if infamous, authors, Knut Hamsun of Norway and Örnulf Tigerstedt of Finland are added. With the question raised, Nazi party leaders and Nazi followers as well as national poets of Sweden are scrutinized. Which of them could be considered to be Nazi poets, and which of them have been wrongly associated with Nazism? And were all Nazi poets men? In our time, with ultra-nationalism and populism in far right movements, a new kind of Nazism even, it is more important than ever to deal with the Nazi past... (More)
"Which Swedish author could be compared to Yukio Mishima of Japan, Ernst Jünger of Germany and Louis-Ferdinand Céline of France?”, a Swedish debater and researcher asks in an article in 2016. To these well-known, even if infamous, authors, Knut Hamsun of Norway and Örnulf Tigerstedt of Finland are added. With the question raised, Nazi party leaders and Nazi followers as well as national poets of Sweden are scrutinized. Which of them could be considered to be Nazi poets, and which of them have been wrongly associated with Nazism? And were all Nazi poets men? In our time, with ultra-nationalism and populism in far right movements, a new kind of Nazism even, it is more important than ever to deal with the Nazi past and reflect upon how Nazism is dealt with in Nazi political poetry, in Sweden as well as in the other Nordic countries. (Less)
Abstract (Swedish)
”Vilken svensk författare motsvarar Japans Yukio Mishima, Tysklands Ernst Jünger och Frankrikes Louis Ferdinand Céline?”, frågar en svensk debattör och forskare i en artikel 2016. Till dessa om än famösa så välkända namn adderar frågeställaren Norges Knut Hamsun respektive Finlands Örnulf Tigerstedt. Med denna fråga som utgångspunkt granskas och prövas i artikeln såväl nazistiska partiledare och nazistanhängare som svenska nationalpoeter. Vilka diktare är att betrakta som nazistiska och vilka har
associerats med nazismen på felaktiga grunder? Och var alla nazistiska diktare män? I nutid med yttringar av vad som betecknats som ultranationalism och populism i ytterlighetsrörelser, till... (More)
”Vilken svensk författare motsvarar Japans Yukio Mishima, Tysklands Ernst Jünger och Frankrikes Louis Ferdinand Céline?”, frågar en svensk debattör och forskare i en artikel 2016. Till dessa om än famösa så välkända namn adderar frågeställaren Norges Knut Hamsun respektive Finlands Örnulf Tigerstedt. Med denna fråga som utgångspunkt granskas och prövas i artikeln såväl nazistiska partiledare och nazistanhängare som svenska nationalpoeter. Vilka diktare är att betrakta som nazistiska och vilka har
associerats med nazismen på felaktiga grunder? Och var alla nazistiska diktare män? I nutid med yttringar av vad som betecknats som ultranationalism och populism i ytterlighetsrörelser, till sin spets dragna i form av nynazism, är det viktigare än någonsin att göra upp med det nazistiska förflutna och utreda hur nazismen gestaltades i den nazistiska kampdikten, såväl i den svenska som i den nordiska. (Less)
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keywords
Hamsun, nazism, nationalism, Norden, kamplyrik
in
Nordlit
volume
47
pages
12 pages
conference name
Hamsun og grense/Hamsun and Borders
conference location
Tromsø, Norway
conference dates
2019-09-18 - 2019-09-21
ISSN
0809-1668
DOI
10.7557/13.5632
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Swedish
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yes
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6d56560e-a789-4938-939b-0065b7de86ee
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2021-04-06 18:04:31
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  author       = {{Jonsson, Bibi}},
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  keywords     = {{Hamsun; nazism; nationalism; Norden; kamplyrik}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  pages        = {{65--76}},
  series       = {{Nordlit}},
  title        = {{Vilken svensk författare motsvarar Knut Hamsun och Örnulf Tigerstedt? : Reflektioner om nazistiska diktare i Norden}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.5632}},
  doi          = {{10.7557/13.5632}},
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  year         = {{2020}},
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