Eyvind Johnson’s Hybrid North : Dynamics of Place and Time in Travelogues and Memory Sketches 1943–1963

• Main Author: Thorup Thomsen, Bjarne
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Umeå : Umeå University & The Royal Skyttean Society 2014
• Subjects: Eyvind Johnson; Northern Swedish culture; travel writing; place and memory; cultural hybridity; working-class culture; General Literature Studies; Litteraturvetenskap; Svartbjörnsbyn; Journal of Northern Studies; Norrbotten
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-106047

The article explores the depiction and understanding of the Swedish North in memory sketches and travelogues, published between 1943 and 1963, by the author Eyvind Johnson, who was born in 1900 in Svartbjörnsbyn in Sweden’s northernmost county, Norrbotten, and went on to win the Nobel Prize for lite...