Telling Tales Testing Boundaries : The Radicalism of Kerstin Ekman’s Norrland

• Main Author: Forsås-Scott, Helena
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Umeå : Umeå University & The Royal Skyttean Society 2014
• Subjects: Kerstin Ekman; Norrland; narrative; focalisation; identity; ecocriticism; postcolonialism; ethics; General Literature Studies; Litteraturvetenskap; Hennes; Lappland; Västra; Journal of Northern Studies
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-106049

Beginning with analyses of De tre små mästarna (1961) [Under the Snow] and Händelser vid vatten (1993) [Blackwater], this investigation into the representation of Norrland in the prose fiction of Kerstin Ekman draws on theoretical material by, among others, Umberto Eco, Mieke Bal, and Rosi Braidotti...