An important theme in Finnish Women’s Literature is the criticism of child-rearing. The idyllic surface is broken, and no family member is exempt...
The Swedish author Carola Hansson’s oeuvre is at the centre of the aesthetic turn of the tide and epistemological turbulence of the 1980s, but her...
Existential Resistance Stories
Tales from the Outskirts of Society
The Women Writer’s Group in Ostrobothnia
One of Astrid Lindgren’s most effective techniques is to let imagination engulf reality. The interpretation of the world by a ‘lying’ child...
Korpfolksungen (The Raven People’s Child) is the Finland-Swedish author and artist Irmelin Sandman Lilius’s fortieth book. She made her...
Young adult fiction underwent dramatic changes in the 1960s and the following decades. New ways of depicting the experiences of young people were...
The Danish author Vita Andersen's prose poetry was nicknamed knækprosa (broken prose) because the poems were apparently...
The Cultural Duality of Emigrant Literature
Throughout her long and popular writing career, Martha Christensen built on social realism and a critical involvement in how society treats the...
Social criticism and new consciousness in Norwegian women’s literature of the 1970s.
