Litteraturen rykker nordpå: Om Grønland i 10’ernes danske litteratur
This article investigates Greenland as a setting in new Danish prose. I make the case that Danish literature about Greenland is a significant trend in the 2010s, and that the books can be divided into three dimensions: past, present and future. Focusing on space and place, I exemplify this division...
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | Danish |
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Aarhus Universitetsforlag
2021
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Online Access: | https://tidsskrift.dk/passage/article/view/127978 |
Summary: | This article investigates Greenland as a setting in new Danish prose. I make the case that Danish literature about Greenland is a significant trend in the 2010s, and that the books can be divided into three dimensions: past, present and future. Focusing on space and place, I exemplify this division through short analyses of the novels Rød mand/Sort mand (2018) by Kim Leine, Godhavn (2014) by Iben Mondrup and Korsveje i Nord (2015) by Bjarne Ljungdahl, which are set in the past, present and future, respectively. |
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