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Swedish "Immigrant Literature" and the Ethnic Lens: The Representation of Cultural Diversity in Jonas Hassen Khemiri's Ett öga rott and Marjaneh Bakhtiari's Kalla det vad fan du vill
Malmö högskola, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), School of Arts and Communication (K3).ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5848-2231
2012 (English)In: Scandinavian Studies, ISSN 0036-5637, E-ISSN 2163-8195, Vol. 84, no 1, p. 27-58Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [sv]

Syften med artikeln är att beskriva hur kulturell mångfald skildras i två litterära verk som beskrivits som typiska exempel på "invandrarlitteratur", nämligen Jonas Hassen Khemiris Ett öga rött och Marjaneh Bakhtiaris Kalla det vad fan du vill, och att visa hur dessa skildringar förhåller sig till den bild av etnicitet som produceras av föreställningen om att Sverige är ett mångkulturellt samhälle. Min tes är att förhållandet bäst beskrivs som en "kritisk dialog", eftersom båda verken ifrågasätter tanken att det samtida Sverige kan förstås med utgångspunkt i etniska skillnader.

Abstract [en]

The aim of this article is to describe how cultural diversity is represented in two literary works considered archetypical examples of contemporary Swedish “immigrant literature”—namely Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s Ett öga rött (2003; A Red Eye) and Marjaneh Bakhtiari’s Kalla det vad fan du vill (2005; Call It What the Hell You Want)—and to show how these representations relate to the view on ethnicity generated by the self-image of Sweden as a multicultural society. I argue that this relationship is best understood as a “critical dialogue,” since both authors question the use of ethnicity for understanding contemporary Swedish society.

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Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study , 2012. Vol. 84, no 1, p. 27-58
Keywords [en]
Khemiri, Bakhtiari, ethnicity, diversity, Sweden, immigrant literature
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General Literature Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-39275DOI: 10.1353/scd.2012.0006ISI: 000309626300002Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84867817037Local ID: 14237OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-39275DiVA, id: diva2:1519217
Available from: 2021-01-18 Created: 2021-01-18 Last updated: 2025-05-12Bibliographically approved

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