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The Representation of Class in Post-Industrial and Multicultural Sweden: Aesthetic-Political Strategies in Kristian Lundberg’s Yarden
Malmö högskola, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), School of Arts and Communication (K3).ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5848-2231
2016 (English)In: New Dimensions of Diversity in Nordic Culture and Society / [ed] Jenny Björklund, Ursula Lindqvist, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016, p. 230-245Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [sv]

Kristian Lundbergs Yarden från 2009 är ett av de viktigaste litterära verken om det samtida svenska klassamhället och ett viktigt tillskott till den nya arbetarlitteratur som växt fram i Sverige under senare år. På ett självreflexivt och poetiskt sätt berättar romanen historien om en författare och kritiker som på grund av en skatteskuld tvingas börja arbeta på "Yarden", en omlastningsplats för bilar i Malmö. Målet med denna artikel är att analysera hur representationen av klassorättvisor i Yarden och Lundbergs estetisk-politiska strategier står i dialog med såväl den allmänna ideologiska utveckling som gått hand i hand med Sveriges förvandling från en socialdemokratisk välfärdsstat till ett mångkulturellt och postindustriellt samhälle, som med ideologiska förhållanden som är specifika för litteraturen.

Abstract [en]

Kristian Lundberg's Yarden from 2009 is one of the most important literary works about contemporary Swedish class society and one of the most significant contributions to the new wave of working-class literature emerging in Sweden in recent years. It tells – in a self-reflexive, and often highly poetic way – the story of a writer and critic from a working-class background who, because of a tax debt, is forced to start working as a manual labourer at a transshipment hub for cars in the city of Malmö, known as "the yard". The aim of this article is to analyse how Yarden's representation of the class injustices suffered by manual labourers in contemporary Sweden and Lundberg's aesthetic-political strategies are conditioned both by the general ideological changes accompanying Sweden's transformation into a multicultural and post-industrial society and by ideological conditions specific to the realm of literature.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. p. 230-245
Keywords [en]
Kristian Lundberg, Yarden, class, working-class literature
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Humanities and the Arts
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-9440Local ID: 20512ISBN: 978-1-4438-8593-5 ISBN: 1-4438-8593-2 OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-9440DiVA, id: diva2:1406472
Available from: 2020-02-28 Created: 2020-02-28 Last updated: 2022-06-27Bibliographically approved

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