{"title":"Contemporary French and Scandinavian Crime Fiction: Citizenship, Gender and Ethnicity","authors":"Andrew Nestingen","doi":"10.5406/21638195.95.4.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21638195.95.4.07","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44446,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES","volume":" 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138614017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic","authors":"Jenna M. Coughlin","doi":"10.5406/21638195.95.4.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21638195.95.4.05","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44446,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES","volume":"30 50","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138623766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Afro-Sweden: Becoming Black in a Color-Blind Country by Ryan Thomas Skinner (review)","authors":"Jasmine Kelekay","doi":"10.5406/21638195.95.4.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21638195.95.4.06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44446,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES","volume":"23 1","pages":"543 - 547"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139278413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Financial Report for CY 2022","authors":"Kimberly J. La Palm","doi":"10.5406/21638195.95.4.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21638195.95.4.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44446,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES","volume":"33 4","pages":"561 - 563"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139278839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Festering Wounds on Heroic Bodies: Depictions of Leprosy and Infection in the riddarasögur and fornaldarsögur","authors":"Maj-Britt Frenze","doi":"10.5406/21638195.95.4.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21638195.95.4.03","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44446,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES","volume":"56 10","pages":"481 - 511"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139279053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nordic Romanticism: Translation, Transmission, Transformation ed. by Cian Duffy and Robert W. Rix (review)","authors":"Ellen Rees","doi":"10.5406/21638195.95.4.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21638195.95.4.08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44446,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES","volume":"65 4","pages":"552 - 556"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139278255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reappropriations and Criticism of Finnishness in Tom of Finland, the Film and the Musical","authors":"Anna-Elena Pääkkölä","doi":"10.5406/21638195.95.4.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21638195.95.4.02","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44446,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES","volume":"309 2","pages":"451 - 480"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139278124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Sinner to Saint: Guðrún Ósvífrsdóttir, Laxdæla saga, and the Lives of Women Penitents","authors":"Natalie M. Van Deusen","doi":"10.5406/21638195.95.4.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21638195.95.4.01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44446,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES","volume":"43 8","pages":"429 - 450"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139278150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Like Snow in the Sun? The German Minority in Denmark in Historical Perspective","authors":"Julie K. Allen","doi":"10.5406/21638195.95.3.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21638195.95.3.08","url":null,"abstract":"As Peter Thaler points out in his preface to the edited volume Like Snow in the Sun? The German Minority in Denmark in Historical Perspective, the EU border region of Sønderjylland (Southern Jutland/Schleswig-Holstein) is often held up today as a model for the harmonious co-existence of different linguistic and ethnic groups, but it is important to remember that this positive state of affairs did not come about easily or quickly. The Danish- and German-oriented groups that form the majority of the region's population (alongside Frisian and plattdüütsch speakers) spent the better part of two centuries jockeying for political and military dominance of the area, with varying degrees of support or pressure from the Danish and German governments and their allies. The overarching story of nationalistic tensions in the border region has been skillfully and evocatively told in several recent publications, including seminal works by Peter Thaler, an associate professor of history at the University of Southern Denmark whose 2009 book Of Mind and Matter: The Duality of National Identity in the German-Danish Borderlands (Purdue University Press) has been foundational for the field. While much of the scholarly focus in such works has been on the challenges faced by the Danish minority living in the duchies occupied or annexed by Germany in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Thaler's new book looks instead at the German-oriented communities that existed within the Danish unified state (helstat) prior to the Second Schleswig War in 1864 and after the 1920 plebiscites that integrated northern Slesvig into the Danish kingdom, offering a much-needed and thoughtful correlative to the better-known stories about the Danish minority.Like Snow in the Sun, which grew out of an international conference held in the UK in 2019, brings together a welcome array of established and emerging scholars’ complementary perspectives on this complex topic, ranging from Thaler's framing narratives about the underlying issues of nationalist activism to PhD candidate Ryan J. Gesme's careful case study of how the plebiscites engaged with Wilsonian rhetoric of self-determination. The chapter authors include Danes, Germans, Brits, Schleswigians, and an American, exemplifying the transnational reach of the topic and its relevance to contemporary political discourses. Eight of the ten chapters focus exclusively on the twentieth century and beyond, from the Great War through the present, in order to explore how the question of cultural identity in this disputed region has continued to be entangled with transnational geopolitical trends and currents. Although the period-specific case studies are primarily historiographic, some of them also contain helpful discussions of intersecting linguistic, propagandistic, ethnographic, and pedagogical aspects of the politically charged situation in the border region.Thaler's introduction both provides a useful chronological framework for the la","PeriodicalId":44446,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135275162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between Literature and Pamphlet: Women Writers on Sexual Transactions in the Scandinavian Modern Breakthrough","authors":"Gisella Brouwer-Turci, Henk A. van der Liet","doi":"10.5406/21638195.95.3.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21638195.95.3.04","url":null,"abstract":"Writing about the Modern Breakthrough (MB) means opening a vantage point on a remarkably dynamic phase in the history of Scandinavian literature during the last three decades of the nineteenth century until the beginning of the First World War.1 During this period, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway were closely tight to each other in the literary marketplace, in which the Danish literary critic Georg Brandes (1842–1927) played a central role. Brandes proclaimed a new paradigm in modern Scandinavian literature in late 1871, advocating a literature that should engage with social issues and societal problems. In practice, he functioned as a European “literary intermediary,” both introducing new developments in contemporary French, German, and English literature to a Scandinavian readership and, at the same time, being recognized as “one of the main advocates of Scandinavian literature throughout Europe” (Van der Liet 2004, 93–5).Among the social issues that literature was called to discuss, many regarded women's rights, including gender inequality and women's role in the patriarchal society, of key importance. Also delicate questions, such as the role of the Church, arranged marriages, and women's economic independence, were at the heart of Scandinavian art in this era (Ahlström 1947; Bredsdorff 1973; Hjordt-Vetlesen 1993; Garton 1993). Last but not least, femininity, female sexuality, and—within this discourse—the social phenomenon of prostitution were central and widely debated themes in Scandinavian society and culture during the MB. The double moral standards and the existing regulatory system allowed men to satisfy their sexual desires without disturbing “respectable” (young) women—from both the upper and middle class—whose sexuality was considered, and expected to be, dormant (Lundquist 1982; Smith 1989; Blom 2006; Jansdotter and Svanström 2007). In this regard, Garton (2002) speaks about “et splittet syn på seksualiteten” (32) [a split perspective on sexuality], highlighting the idea that, unlike lower-class women, middle- and upper-class women should remain untouched until marriage and were not supposed to enjoy sexual life. This dichotomy, and the biblical connotation of lust as sinful, classified women who, for one reason or another, could or would not meet that strict norm, as moral outcasts (Engelstad 1984; Hjordt-Vetlesen 1993; Forsås-Scott 1997; Logan 1998). All this was within a context in which notions such as women's intellectual inferiority as a consequence of their reproductive role, the absence of female sexual desire, and prostitution as a manifestation of an innate criminal nature were firmly anchored in the scientific discourse of that time (Bredsdorff 1973; Brantly 1991; 2004).During the MB, prostitution was one of the most important societal issues that needed to be discussed. As demonstrated in our previous paper (Brouwer-Turci and Van der Liet 2018), different forms of prostitution and women engaging in sexual transactions were ","PeriodicalId":44446,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135275166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}