Redaktionellt förord till Tidskrift för genusvetenskap. Tema Feministiskt skrivande

En recension av Anna-Clara Törnqvists avhandling Likt ett brustet halleluja: trons och tvivlets tematik i Christine Falkenlands prosa. ISBN 978-91-7061-077-6 (inb) Göteborg: Makadam, 2010. Fakultetsopponent: Cristine Sarrimo.

A review of the Swedish writer Marjaneh Bakhtiari's novel Can you pronounce Schibbolet?

In my research project, I have interviewed students and teachers on a two-year university study programme in creative writing about how they perceive their own work and their own roles as authors. With Habermas' theory of communicative action as my starting point, I have devised a theoretical model to explore the act of creative writing. This article discusses writers' work procedures in a communicative network of institutional and everyday practices, in the light of established notions of literature and authors. In my informants' references to their own writing, the metaphor of 'space' - specifically, how an 'inner' creative space interacts with an 'outer' public one - is crucial. This metaphor applies to several levels of communicative action: individual, institutional, public and textual. Owing to its limited length, this article comments solely on the individual and institutional levels.

Rewiew of a dissertation in Comparative Literature

En triangulär genusstruktur och hur den är relaterad till konstruktionen av det främmande i Heidenstams roman Endymion undersöks

En studie av orientalismen i en roman av Verner von Heidenstam med fokus på hur en arabisk man erotiseras via en amerikansk kvinnas blick.

Based on results from a field work in a school of creative writing this article discusses the theoretical and methodological challenges related to the task of capturing creative practices.

Habermas theory of communicative action is used as a starting point for discerning how students in a university based school of creative writing view their future role as professional writers and how they negotiate their social and gendered positions in the academic environment.

Sajten Flashback undersöks; vilka nya skribentfunktione skapar sajten och hur de förhåller sig till medieutvecklingen i Sverige och förändrade roller för journalisten diskuteras.

Hur författaren Verner von Heidenstam skildrar föreställningar om ekonomiskt, existentiellt och nationellt värde i romanen Folkungaträdet visas i denna artikel.

"Heidenstam's harem" focuses on the Swedish writer Verner von Heidenstam's oeuvre from the 1890s, and how its conceptions of gender and sexuailty are affected by ideologies connected to the nation, the Orient and the new marketeconomy.

An analysis of the orientalism in Heidenstam's novel "Hans Alienus". The orientalistic traits are related to the depiction of sexuality, gender and to the decadent movement.

A theoretical discussion and presentation of a research project concerning creative writing practices in a school of creative writing.

This study analyses autobiographical texts that have created a stir after 2000 and the response they aroused among critics and readers. The starting is the escalating intimisation and commercialisation of the public sphere and an ideology of individualisation in late modernity. Mediatised self-images of diverse types are generated by what are known as 'confessional practices'; processes of mediatisation influence these practices and the effects they may have. Stepping forth to tell the truth or bear witness is no innocent stance, and its consequences are revealed in this study.

In her ”true” stories Buried Alive and Asylum Granted Liza Marklund, Swedish journalist and crime writer, acts as a ghost writer for Maria Eriksson’s presumed life story of abuse, hiding and flight to the USA where she, according to Marklund’s novel, was granted asylum. In 2008 the journalist Monica Antonsson published Mia – The Truth About Buried Alive. In the book she questions the factual background of Buried Alive. Marklund argued that although some changes were made to make identification of the characters more difficult, the bulk of the story was factually correct. Antonsson’s book initiated a heated debate in webloggs in 2009. When faced with Antonsson’s critique, former fans of Marklund accused her of being a liar, protected by politicians as well as the so called media elite. In this article, the debate about Buried Alive and Marklund’s position as a popular and influential feminist, is analyzed as a manifestation of a mediatized logic consisting of the ongoing intimization, feminization and commercialization of the public sphere, which ultimately deprofessionalizes the traditional role of the writer as well as the journalist. The users of social media precipitate this development. It is argued that this intimization process is part of a desire for a new realism, elaborated in ”true stories” in both literature, film, reality shows and the art world. Buried Alive and Asylum Granted are a mixture of fact and fiction – faction – which has its roots in contemporary reality culture as well as tabloid journalism. When negotiating about truth and lies in these books, thus reconstructing a traditional discourse of accusation, the bloggers forced Marklund to defend herself. This shows that Marklund’s Buried Alive not only creates a naive emotive reader craving for the truth, but also a new ”fourth estate” public position for amateur users of social media.

Hur en nutida genuslogik fungerar i offentligheten diskuters i detta bokkapitel med utgångspunkt i mottagande av Lars Noréns En dramatikers dagbok och Maja Lundgrens Myggor och tigrar.

A review of a dissertation in Comparative Literature, A-K Carlstoft Bramell's "Vilhelm Moberg tar ställning: en studie av hans journalistik och tidsaktuella diktning", and Jens Liljestrand's collection of Moberg's letters: "Om Gud vill och hälsan varar: Vilhelm Mobergs brev 1918-1949".

A comparative discourse analysis based on Coetzee's novel Disgrace and an authentic case of sexual harassment in a Swedish university, involving a professor and his student, shows that an emotive discourse with religious and legal confessional traits is absolutely necessary for the accused to embrace, if he desires to protect his rationally constructed professionalism. Coetzee's hero refuses to confess and is consequently disgracefully dismissed from his position as professor, whereas the professor in the authentic case protects his position by confessing his guilt. Ethical dilemmas arise concerning the status of truth and the confessional, and power- and genderrelations are also effected. The public and private, teh emotive and rational, is intertwined in a complicated relaitonal process, where professional and gender hierarchies shift. This leads to the conclusion that the professional academic subject is exposed to a discursively regulated disciplining process in which the supposed repression of emotion is essential, and therefore one of this subject's most constitutive traits.

A review of Eva Borgström's book Love Story. Desire between women in 1900-century literature.

Homoerotiska föreställningar och strukturer i Heidenstams brev till Levertin undersöks och sätts i relation till gestaltningen av karaktären Ahirab i Heidenstams roman Hans Alienus.

A discussion of how students and teachers in an academic school of creative writing perceive their creative work, and how they formulate what "bad" and "good" writing is. It is shown that their creative writing is intimately linked to the processes of authorization in the professsional literary field.

A review of the tv-drama "Selma" (a dramatization of two days in the life of Selma Lagerlöf).