Dansk grønlandslitteratur og jagten på det antropocæne
Danish Greenland-literature and the hunt for the anthropocene This article examines the role of climate change and the Anthropocene in contemporary Danish literature about Greenland. I argue that even though Danish literature in general has been very concerned with anthropogenic climate change in re...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:be82976a90e74821a2d7da320b84267b 2023-05-15T16:23:59+02:00 Dansk grønlandslitteratur og jagten på det antropocæne Emilie Dybdal 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doaj.org/article/be82976a90e74821a2d7da320b84267b DA EN NO SV dan eng nor swe Aalborg University Press https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/ak/article/view/7634 https://doaj.org/toc/1904-0008 1904-0008 https://doaj.org/article/be82976a90e74821a2d7da320b84267b Akademisk Kvarter (2023) dansk grønlandslitteratur Grønland antropocæn klimafiktion cli-fi History of scholarship and learning. The humanities AZ20-999 article 2023 ftdoajarticles 2023-01-22T01:36:01Z Danish Greenland-literature and the hunt for the anthropocene This article examines the role of climate change and the Anthropocene in contemporary Danish literature about Greenland. I argue that even though Danish literature in general has been very concerned with anthropogenic climate change in recent years, this is not the case for Danish literature specifically about Greenland. To illustrate this, I begin with a short literary overview, after which I focus on the novel Korsveje i Nord (2015) by Bjarne Ljungdahl. This book, I define as an example of cli-fi (“climate fiction” or “climate change fiction”) that does engage with Greenland, and I analyze its view on the Anthropocene. Following this main part of the article, I briefly discuss what potentials cli-fi’s such as Korsveje i Nord might hold in the discussion of anthropogenic climate change and the Anthropocene, and I turn my attention to literature about Greenland from outside Denmark. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland Grønland Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Greenland |
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Danish Greenland-literature and the hunt for the anthropocene This article examines the role of climate change and the Anthropocene in contemporary Danish literature about Greenland. I argue that even though Danish literature in general has been very concerned with anthropogenic climate change in recent years, this is not the case for Danish literature specifically about Greenland. To illustrate this, I begin with a short literary overview, after which I focus on the novel Korsveje i Nord (2015) by Bjarne Ljungdahl. This book, I define as an example of cli-fi (“climate fiction” or “climate change fiction”) that does engage with Greenland, and I analyze its view on the Anthropocene. Following this main part of the article, I briefly discuss what potentials cli-fi’s such as Korsveje i Nord might hold in the discussion of anthropogenic climate change and the Anthropocene, and I turn my attention to literature about Greenland from outside Denmark. |
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