Code
01N02614
Duration
01 January 2014 → 31 October 2019
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Humanities and the arts
- Language studies
- Literary studies
- Theory and methodology of language studies
- Theory and methodology of linguistics
- Theory and methodology of literary studies
- Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
representation of traumatic experience
colonial past in Sweden and Denmark
Memory and Media Studies
Contemporary
Scandinavian literature
Literary studies
Project description
The research project examines the literary and cinematic representation of traumatic experiences of children belonging to a national minority in Sweden and Denmark, who were forbidden to speak in their own mother tongue long into the 1950s. With reference to recent Postcolonial Studies and Memory and Media Studies it is to be analysed how the “colonial” past in Scandinavia is remembered and discussed today and which role literature and film play in this process.