Harry Martinson’s Aniara as a Menippean satire for the Anthropocene

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Series editor’s preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1. Nordic welfare state utopianism
6. From Niels Klim to Björk’s Utopia 17
7. Crisis after utopia 35
8. Utopianism reinstated 55
9. An ethnographic account of the Nordic utopia in Scotland 73
10. Part 2. Nature in transformation
11. Creeping into the present 93
12. Snowy state 111
13. Frozen futures or tropical Greenland? 131
14. Children of the district 153
15. Part 3. Confronting dystopian futures
16. Harry Martinson’s Aniara as a Menippean satire for the Anthropocene 181
17. Who is in power, you say? 197
18. Remembering in the age of global warming 213
19. Space for love or arts of living on a damaged planet 229
20. Index 253