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Szwed i Polak czytają „Underdoga”. Kulturowe uwarunkowania recepcji dzieła literackiego

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Żmuda-Trzebiatowska M.

Studia Europaea Gnesnensia

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2016

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issue 13

249-266

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In the article, the author considers cultural factors which affect the reading of literary work by Swedish and Polish audiences. The piece in question is Underdog by Torbjörn Flygt (2001, translated into Polish by Elżbieta Jasińska-Brunnberg, 2006). Analyzing the setting of the novel in historical narrative about the Swedish welfare state, the authors poses questions regarding universal or hermetic nature of Flygt’s novel.

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Myten Och Dess Arvtagare. Historiska Och Skönlitterära Berättelser Om Folkhemmet

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Żmuda-Trzebiatowska M.

Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia

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2014

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vol. 16

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The paper’s aim is to indicate the mutual relations between contemporary Swedish literature and the academic and political discourse on the welfare state’s crisis. The article’s first part discusses the genesis, evolution and meaning of the term ”Swedish folkhem” as it is understood today, i.e. as a political vision underlying the Swedish welfare state which with time has become a metaphor and a myth. In its other part the presence of historical narratives on the Swedish folkhem in five autobiographically inspired novels on childhood and growing up is investigated (Jonas Gardell’s En komikers uppväxt (1992), Lena Andersson’s Var det bra så? (1999), Mikael Niemi’s Populärmusik i Vittula (2000), Torbjörn Flygt’s Underdog (2001) and Susanna Alakoski’s Svinalängorna (2006). Analysing the chosen examples, the author of the paper focuses mainly on the issue of how the narratives known from political propaganda and debate are transformed, commented and used in a literary text to construct a collective identity.

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Styvbarnen i folkhemmet? Utanförskap i svenska barndomsskildringar

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Żmuda-Trzebiatowska M.

Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia

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2012

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vol. 14

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The subject of the article is the experience of social exclusion present in five contemporary novels on childhood and adolescence spent in the Swedish folkhem, by Jonas Gardell, Lena Andersson, Mikael Niemi, Torbjörn Flygt and Susanna Alakoski. In the first part of the article I am discussing social exclusion as a term used in the debate about the Swedish welfare-state in crisis. The second part is an analysis of the literary texts, using a sociological perspective. I am focusing there on portraits of the children that are main characters in the novels, the children whose personal identity is being shaped in the shadow of the collective dream of a perfect society. Asking a question about the specifically Swedish character of those children’s sense of exclusion, I am referring to the words of the social democratic leader Per Albin Hansson, who in his speech of 1928, presented a vision of Sweden as a happy and fair common home (folkhem), in which there is no place for either favored citizens (“darlings”), or for second-class citizens (“stepchildren”).

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Szwed i Polak czytają „Underdoga”. Kulturowe uwarunkowania recepcji dzieła literackiego

Myten Och Dess Arvtagare. Historiska Och Skönlitterära Berättelser Om Folkhemmet

Styvbarnen i folkhemmet? Utanförskap i svenska barndomsskildringar