Underdogen och den Vita Nostalgin: En undersökning av malmöitisk identitet genom litterära texter om Malmö
(2021) GNVM03 20211Department of Gender Studies
- Abstract (Swedish)
- The thesis explores the making of Malmo Swedish third city, through an exploration of relevant literary texts that have the city's identity as its central focus. Taking a point of departure in a queer/reparatory methodological reading as well as in feminist postcolonial traditions; the thesis analyzes how and why certain ideas about the city of Malmö as a home are constructed and thus which identities and subjects are considered to belong to the city. The analysis of the narratives show that Malmo is recreated as an “underdog”; a passivating identity since it creates an image of the city being unable to produce intellectual and cultural responses. The “real” inhabitant of Malmo is also constructed as an “underdog” localized in the figure... (More)
- The thesis explores the making of Malmo Swedish third city, through an exploration of relevant literary texts that have the city's identity as its central focus. Taking a point of departure in a queer/reparatory methodological reading as well as in feminist postcolonial traditions; the thesis analyzes how and why certain ideas about the city of Malmö as a home are constructed and thus which identities and subjects are considered to belong to the city. The analysis of the narratives show that Malmo is recreated as an “underdog”; a passivating identity since it creates an image of the city being unable to produce intellectual and cultural responses. The “real” inhabitant of Malmo is also constructed as an “underdog” localized in the figure of the male worker from the industrial era who gets to represent the anti-hero of the heyday of the “folk home”. These fantasies are produced through white nostalgia making invisible the heterogeneity of the working class during the city's industrial era but also the racialized and feminized working class of today since these categories of people are not considered to embody the ”authentic Malmö” working-identity. Instead they often in the narratives represent a cultural identity and embody the ”multicultural” city. The narratives of nostalgia are problematic since they maintain the position of hegemonic groups and undermines the agency of queer and racialized people in the city. Leaving white nostalgia behind, it is argued, can enable anti-nationalist stories embraced in the scholarship of hope. (Less)
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- author
- Mattisson, Tove LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- GNVM03 20211
- year
- 2021
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Home, identity, underdog, narratives of loss, white nostalgia, hem, identitet, förlustnarrativ, vit nostalgi
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9064341
- date added to LUP
- 2021-09-23 11:32:47
- date last changed
- 2021-09-23 11:32:47
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abstract = {{The thesis explores the making of Malmo Swedish third city, through an exploration of relevant literary texts that have the city's identity as its central focus. Taking a point of departure in a queer/reparatory methodological reading as well as in feminist postcolonial traditions; the thesis analyzes how and why certain ideas about the city of Malmö as a home are constructed and thus which identities and subjects are considered to belong to the city. The analysis of the narratives show that Malmo is recreated as an “underdog”; a passivating identity since it creates an image of the city being unable to produce intellectual and cultural responses. The “real” inhabitant of Malmo is also constructed as an “underdog” localized in the figure of the male worker from the industrial era who gets to represent the anti-hero of the heyday of the “folk home”. These fantasies are produced through white nostalgia making invisible the heterogeneity of the working class during the city's industrial era but also the racialized and feminized working class of today since these categories of people are not considered to embody the ”authentic Malmö” working-identity. Instead they often in the narratives represent a cultural identity and embody the ”multicultural” city. The narratives of nostalgia are problematic since they maintain the position of hegemonic groups and undermines the agency of queer and racialized people in the city. Leaving white nostalgia behind, it is argued, can enable anti-nationalist stories embraced in the scholarship of hope.}},
author = {{Mattisson, Tove}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Underdogen och den Vita Nostalgin: En undersökning av malmöitisk identitet genom litterära texter om Malmö}},
year = {{2021}},
}