Lena Ahlin
Biographic Data
| ID | 5871529 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lena Ahlin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lena |
| FAMILY NAME | Ahlin |
| SIGNATURE | AHLIN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kristianstad University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3020-7814 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Past and Present Crimes in Sápmi
This article explores representations of Sápmi in Lars Pettersson’s Kautokeino, a Bloody Knife (2012) and Olivier Truc’s Forty Days Without Shadow: An Arctic Thriller (2014). The analysis focuses on how a distinct sense of place is created in these works through representations of Sápmi as an indigenous, transnational space that continues to be haunted by a colonial past. Simultaneously remote and transnational, Sápmi is a literary space in which…
Nostalgia, Motherhood, and Adoption
This paper explores the notion of nostalgia in two recent Swedish narratives of transnational adoption: Christina Rickardsson’s Sluta aldrig gå, 2016, (published in English as Never Stop Walking in 2017), and Cilla Naumann’s Bära barnet hem (“Carrying the Child Home”, 2015). The two narratives deal with adoption from South America to Sweden, include autobiographical content, and enable a comparison between an adoptee memoir (Rickardsson) and a pa…
All we wanted to do, now that we were back in the world, was forget”
This article considers Julie Otsuka’s representations of the World-War-II internment of Japanese Americans in When the Emperor Was Divine (2002) and The Buddha in the Attic (2011) from the perspective of collective remembrance, thus highlighting the interconnectedness of remembrance, forgetting, silence and race. Remembering and forgetting are understood as contingent on one another, and on the ideological currents and countercurrents that affect…
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All we wanted to do, now that we were back in the world, was forget”
This article considers Julie Otsuka’s representations of the World-War-II internment of Japanese Americans in When the Emperor Was Divine (2002) and The Buddha in the Attic (2011) from the perspective of collective remembrance, thus highlighting the interconnectedness of remembrance, forgetting, silence and race. Remembering and forgetting are understood as contingent on one another, and on the ideological currents and countercurrents that affect…
Nostalgia, Motherhood, and Adoption
This paper explores the notion of nostalgia in two recent Swedish narratives of transnational adoption: Christina Rickardsson’s Sluta aldrig gå, 2016, (published in English as Never Stop Walking in 2017), and Cilla Naumann’s Bära barnet hem (“Carrying the Child Home”, 2015). The two narratives deal with adoption from South America to Sweden, include autobiographical content, and enable a comparison between an adoptee memoir (Rickardsson) and a pa…
Past and Present Crimes in Sápmi
This article explores representations of Sápmi in Lars Pettersson’s Kautokeino, a Bloody Knife (2012) and Olivier Truc’s Forty Days Without Shadow: An Arctic Thriller (2014). The analysis focuses on how a distinct sense of place is created in these works through representations of Sápmi as an indigenous, transnational space that continues to be haunted by a colonial past. Simultaneously remote and transnational, Sápmi is a literary space in which…
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