Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia
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<p class="oczasopismie"><strong>INTRODUCTION</strong>:<br />Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia is an international, peer-reviewed journal of Scandinavian studies, established and edited by the Department of Scandinavian Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland). The journal carries scholarly articles on Scandinavian linguistics, literature, history and culture as well as book reviews. Contributions both from Poland and abroad are welcome. Papers submitted to FSP may be written in English, German as well as the mainland Scandinavian languages</p> <ul class="oczasopismie"> <li class="show"><a href="https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/fsp/about">ABOUT THE JOURNAL</a></li> <li class="show"><a href="https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/fsp/issue/view/3">CURRENT ISSUE</a></li> <li class="show"><a href="https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/fsp/issue/archive">ARCHIVES</a></li> </ul> <p class="oczasopismie"><strong>INDEXED IN:</strong><br />AMUR; CELDES; CNKI SCHOLAR; CNPIEC; EBSCO DISCOVERY SERVICE; ERIH PLUS; GOOGLE SCHOLAR; J-GATE; LINGUISTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY ONLINE; MLA INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY; NAVIGA; PRIMO CENTRAL; READCUBE; SUMMON; TDONE; ULRICH'S PERIODICALS DIRECTORY; WORLDCAT<br /><br /><strong>JOURNAL METRICS:<br /></strong>Ministry of Education and Science (2023)<strong>: 20</strong><br /><img src="https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/public/piotr/ikonki/ic_69_19.png" alt="" /><strong><br /></strong></p> <p class="oczasopismie"><strong>DOI: </strong><a href="https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/fsp/index">10.2478/fsp</a></p> <p class="oczasopismie"><strong>ISSN: </strong>1230-4786 <strong>e-ISSN: </strong>2299-6885</p> <p class="oczasopismie"><strong>PUBLISHED WORK ARE LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS:</strong><br /><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><img src="https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/public/site/images/aws/by-1-e9d3ec5ead03e399f4fc9bd3a39b8d87.png" alt="CC_by-nd/4.0" width="100" height="35" border="0" /></a></p>Adam Mickiewicz University Poznanen-USFolia Scandinavica Posnaniensia1230-4786Front Matter
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2023-12-292023-12-2934Introduction: New Geographies of Scandinavian Studies. Moving maps, reciprocal images, emerging communities
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<p align="justify">This article provides an introduction to the Research Network “New Geographies of Scandinavian Studies” while at the same time discussing some of its main concerns and questions: the position of the Nordic countries and the role of Scandinavian Studies in the changing geopolitical landscape of post-Cold War Europe. The collapse of the Eastern bloc in 1989–1991 led to a reconfiguration of the European political map. This situation also entailed new possibilities for international and cross-disciplinary research: A new understanding of Nordic and Baltic studies was institutionalized and new regional concepts were developed as alternatives to Cold War geopolitics. The network “New Geographies of Scandinavian Studies” is rooted in this ongoing reorientation of the field. The article discusses some of the potentials and challenges of this new agenda of Scandinavian Studies in the context of the new geopolitical confrontation between Russia and the West after Russia’s military attack on Ukraine in February 2022.</p>Torben JelsbakLill-Ann Körber
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2023-12-292023-12-293451510.14746/fsp-2023.34.01Coming to terms with the North. Scandinavia in Polish culture at the turn of the 21st century
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<p align="justify">The article deals with representations of Scandinavia in Polish literature from the 1980s to the second decade of the 21st century. The basic claim of the article is that a shift in the Polish imagination from the West to the North has occurred through literature and growing public interest. This shift began with efforts to transform the initial stereotype of Scandinavia as a land of prosperity. In subsequent stages, the imaginary was expanded by literature to include the themes of equality, social trust and self-correcting modernity. Complicating the image of Scandinavia made it into a viable alternative to Western modernity.</p>Przemysław Czapliński
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2023-12-292023-12-2934163010.14746/fsp-2023.34.02A stereotype that deconstructs itself. Representations of Danes and Denmark in Joanna Chmielewska’s crime novels
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<p align="justify">The research question this article tries to answer is: how was Scandinavia “invented” in Polish prose written when the Iron Curtain still physically divided Europe? The text discusses three novels written by Joanna Chmielewska (1932–2013) and published in 1969 (Krokodyl z Kraju Karoliny [The Crocodile from Caroline’s Country]), 1973 (Lesio) and 1974 (Wszystko czerwone [All in Red]). Chmielewska, a vastly popular Polish crime novelist, especially known for the creation of the so-called “ironic crime” sub-genre, often introduced depictions of Denmark and the country’s inhabitants in her novels and used them to demonstrate amusing contrasts between them and her Polish protagonists and their reality in Poland. My goal is to show that while Westerners constructed and exoticized the East, Easterners did the very same thing to the West, only using different values and criteria in order to distinguish between “us” and “them”. We should therefore perhaps start talking about “inventing Europe” or “inventing Europes” – where the West invents the East and the East invents the West, and xenostereotypes introduce and reinforce autostereotypes. Those stereotypes can sometimes become so extreme that they are no longer sustainable and “collapse” under their own weight.</p>Karolina Drozdowska
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2023-12-292023-12-2934314410.14746/fsp-2023.34.03“Let’s have a cup of tea” – Scandinavian crime fiction through Hungarian eyes. Zoltán Kőhalmi’s practical guide to crime writers
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<p align="justify">In recent decades, a wide range of Scandinavian crime novels have conquered Hungarian readers, providing a more sophisticated perspective on the existing image of Scandinavian cultures and societies, with their intriguing social content and appealing landscapes. This wave of crime fiction has not only contributed to a better understanding of Scandinavia, but also drawn attention to the genre itself, which culminated in a parody written by a Hungarian stand-up comedian, Zoltán Kőhalmi. In his incorporation of all the obligatory ingredients of Scandinavian crime novels, the comedian not only reuses the self-image that Scandinavian crime narratives convey, he pillories the genre requirements by exaggerating the use of the most well-known characteristics. The analysis of Kőhalmi’s satirical use of Scandinavian crime narratives serves as a case study for a closer understanding of conceptions of Scandinavia in contemporary Hungary.</p>Anita Soós
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2023-12-292023-12-2934455510.14746/fsp-2023.34.04“It is more than needed in our country”. Contemporary Czech images of Scandinavia through the lens of literary criticism
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<p align="justify">Before the age of mass media and mass travel (including tourism), cultural stereotypes were formed and communicated predominantly utilizing literature and other written sources (Fischer 1987). Nowadays, people travel extensively; they can get direct information from radio, television, and social media, yet stereotypes still seem to prevail. The general Czech contemporary notion of Scandinavian societies comes to the fore in the reviews of translated Scandinavian literature and Scandinavian (or Nordic) films, written by professionals and published in the edited press or the largely unedited social media. In these reviews, one can discern certain paradigms that doubtlessly amount to stereotypes. In this article, I will present a qualitative discourse analysis of Scandinavian stereotypes in the Czech reception of the Scandinavian arts, especially literature, taking into account the intertextual and contextual aspects of the Scandinavian ethnotypes occurring in reviews and paratexts in Czech mass media. I focus on two explicitly addressed images: The emancipated Scandinavian woman, and the alleged Scandinavian egalitarianism. Finally, I will resort to Tzvetan Todorov’s typology of relations to the Other. I will try to explain the activist criticism of Czech reviewers, who tend to compare the Czech situation with the Scandinavian one, using Todorov’s three axes describing the relation to alterity.</p>Helena Březinová
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2023-12-292023-12-2934567310.14746/fsp-2023.34.05What kind of place is Norden? The image of Norden in Polish literary reviews of Nordic literature
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<p align="justify">The article discusses the question of how Nordic literature in translation – as reflected in Polish literary reviews – creates Norden as a place. What kind of imagery (constructed in a continuous discursive process) is projected on the Nordic region, and what purposes does this construction serve? The analysis draws on an understanding of place as a construct based on “body, landscape and culture” (Ringgaard & DuBois 2017:20) and uses concepts taken from imagology and literary reception studies.</p>Sylwia Izabela Schab
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2023-12-292023-12-2934748710.14746/fsp-2023.34.06“If Sweden is a province, what are we?” Map-making and man-making in Marius Ivaškevičius’s essay series My Scandinavia
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<p align="justify">This co-written article approaches the influential Lithuanian writer and playwright Marius Ivaškevičius’s essay series <em>My Scandinavia</em> (2004) from two different vantage points reflecting either side of the former ‘Iron Curtain’. Published in the year when Lithuania joined the European Union, the essay series describes the narrator’s travels and symbolic and ironic conquest of Northern Europe in the wake of the border openings following the collapse of the Soviet Union. First, employing the notions of “temporal” and “spatial nodes” (Ringgard & DuBois 2017), the article addresses how the crossings of the Baltic Sea and journeys through Northern Europe depicted in Ivaškevičius’s essays represent an awareness of significant shifts in the unfolding of European history and Europe’s spatial configuration. Second, the article reads <em>My Scandinavia</em> as an example of creative map-making in line with theories of critical cartography. Finally, the article puts the travelling subject in <em>My Scandinavia</em> centre stage, looking at the dialectic ways in which subject and place create each other. Just as Scandinavia has been actively moulding the narrating and, by implication, also the writing subject’s biography, so has he given Scandinavia shape through his discourse, while also idiosyncratically framing Europe’s shifting political and mental geography.</p>Lill-Ann KörberIeva Steponavičiūtė-Aleksiejūnienė
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2023-12-292023-12-29348810710.14746/fsp-2023.34.07Somewhere between Malmö and Copenhagen: Inter-spaces in Marius Ivaškevičius’ play Close City
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<p align="justify">In the drama <em>Close City</em>, first published in 2005, Lithuanian playwright Marius Ivaškevičius focuses on the (im)possible connections between Malmö and Copenhagen. The initially realistic setting of a failing marriage in the spirit of August Strindberg and Ingmar Bergman evolves gradually into an absurd spectacle that explores spatial and intertextual interstices. This article investigates how the drama, as a scenic kaleidoscope, elaborates on the influence of imagined geographies in the Baltic Sea region, discusses (gendered) power relations, and questions Scandinavian exceptionalism.</p>Clemens Räthel
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2023-12-292023-12-293410812010.14746/fsp-2023.34.08“Didn’t that sound like the north was calling us?” Imagined geographies and Cold War legacies in Sofi Oksanen’s Dog Park (Koirapuisto)
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<p align="justify">The article presents a discussion of Finnish-Estonian author Sofi Oksanen’s 2019 novel <em>Dog Park</em> (<em>Koirapuisto</em>), a social and psychological thriller about two Ukrainian women working in the Ukrainian fertility industry, offering surrogacy services to Western clients. The novel explores some of the new modes of exchange and cultural encounter that were established between Ukraine and the West after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It presents a reflection of the social and human consequences of the transition from communism to capitalism but is also a story of how the legacy of Cold War geopolitics continues to shape European mental geographies and experiences at the intersection of East and West. Drawing on concepts from human geography and postcolonial studies, the article offers a reading of Oksanen’s novel focusing especially on how the novel negotiates these geopolitical shifts as well as the position of the Nordic countries on the changing European map.</p>Torben Jelsbak
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2023-12-292023-12-293412113210.14746/fsp-2023.34.09A transnational regioscape in the making. The Baltic Sea in Christian Petzold’s Barbara and Ilze Burkovska-Jacobsen’s My Favorite War
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<p align="justify">The Baltic Sea has effectively separated the Scandinavian and Eastern European countries, especially in the period when this body of water constituted a part of the Iron Curtain and functioned for Scandinavians as an imaginary protective moat. From the East-Central European perspective, the Baltic Sea offered a hope of escape to freedom, encapsulated in the cinematic trope of the sea as a ‘blue boundary’, or a ‘horizon of hope’. But the Baltic Sea was also feared as a life-threatening border, as expressed in the trope of ‘Baltic noir’, a variation of the ‘Eastern noir’ trope (Mrozewicz 2018) – imagining the sea in nocturnal scenery as wild and under state control. The article discusses screen representations of the Baltic Sea understood as performative regioscaping practices (Chow 2021), offering insights into the memories and histories of human mobilities across the Baltic Sea beyond official narratives, as well as into the human relationship with the sea as both a cultural boundary and material body of water. As demonstrated by the analyzed film examples, Christian Petzold’s <em>Barbara</em> (2012, Germany) and Ilze Burkovska-Jacobsen’s <em>My Favorite War</em> (2020, Norway, Latvia), the Baltic Sea continues to be an important spatiotemporal node in the transnational re-telling of the region’s history and identity.</p>Anna Estera Mrozewicz
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2023-12-292023-12-293413314410.14746/fsp-2023.34.10