Literature, Language, and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia and the Low CountriesWolfgang Behschnitt, Sarah De Mul, Liesbeth Minnaard Literature, Language, and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia and the Low Countries presents a ground-breaking comparative approach to the study of multicultural literature. Focusing on the development of migration literature in Sweden, Denmark, Flanders, and the Netherlands, the volume argues that the political and institutional preconditions for the development of ‘multicultural’ literatures are still given within the frame of the nation-state. As a consequence, both the field of ‘migration literature’ and the (multi-)lingual quality of literary texts are shaped differently in each state and in each language area. The volume delineates the development of multicultural literature in Scandinavia and the Low Countries as a function of the specific language situations in these countries as well as the various political, institutional, and discursive contexts. This book not only offers a comprehensive theoretical and methodological analysis of multilingualism and multicultural literature, but also provides overviews sketching the discourse on multiculturalism, language and the development of the literary field in Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Flanders. Besides it presents a broad range of in-depth analyses of selected literary texts from each of these countries. |
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| Title | Literature, Language, and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia and the Low Countries |
| Editors | Wolfgang Behschnitt, Sarah De Mul, Liesbeth Minnaard |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Rodopi, 2013 |
| ISBN | 9401209855, 9789401209854 |
| Length | 343 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / European / General Literary Criticism / General Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural Social Science / Emigration & Immigration |
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