Soldiers and Other Monsters: the Allied Occupation in Icelandic Fiction
ABSTRACT: Wars and arms long remained a foreign phenomenon in Iceland until the country was occupied by Allied forces during WWII. Although the occupation was a “friendly” one and the army brought unprecedented wealth to the country, the presence of a foreign military was objectionable and distressi...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:360ff81176e242febb8923ff041340c0 2023-07-02T03:32:43+02:00 Soldiers and Other Monsters: the Allied Occupation in Icelandic Fiction Daisy L. Neijmann 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.29173/scancan121 https://doaj.org/article/360ff81176e242febb8923ff041340c0 EN FR eng fre University of Alberta Library https://scancan.net/index.php/scancan/article/view/121 https://doaj.org/toc/0823-1796 https://doaj.org/toc/2816-5187 doi:10.29173/scancan121 0823-1796 2816-5187 https://doaj.org/article/360ff81176e242febb8923ff041340c0 Scandinavian-Canadian Studies, Vol 23 (2016) History of Northern Europe. Scandinavia DL1-1180 Language and Literature P article 2016 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.29173/scancan121 2023-06-11T00:34:56Z ABSTRACT: Wars and arms long remained a foreign phenomenon in Iceland until the country was occupied by Allied forces during WWII. Although the occupation was a “friendly” one and the army brought unprecedented wealth to the country, the presence of a foreign military was objectionable and distressing to many. Literature, historiography, and scholarship on the occupation have long been obsessed with the so-called ástandskonan (woman fraternizing with soldiers), the perceived incarnation of an invaded and polluted nation. This article examines the response of Icelandic fiction writers to the occupation through the figure of the soldier instead. A focus on fictional representations of the soldier enables us to see how writers imagine the occupation and its consequences for the nation, its culture, and, not least, for an injured sense of manhood. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles The Soldier ENVELOPE(-55.648,-55.648,52.217,52.217) Scandinavian-Canadian Studies 23 96 120 |
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ABSTRACT: Wars and arms long remained a foreign phenomenon in Iceland until the country was occupied by Allied forces during WWII. Although the occupation was a “friendly” one and the army brought unprecedented wealth to the country, the presence of a foreign military was objectionable and distressing to many. Literature, historiography, and scholarship on the occupation have long been obsessed with the so-called ástandskonan (woman fraternizing with soldiers), the perceived incarnation of an invaded and polluted nation. This article examines the response of Icelandic fiction writers to the occupation through the figure of the soldier instead. A focus on fictional representations of the soldier enables us to see how writers imagine the occupation and its consequences for the nation, its culture, and, not least, for an injured sense of manhood. |
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Soldiers and Other Monsters: the Allied Occupation in Icelandic Fiction |
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