Abstract
Based on a comparative analysis of Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s three novels Ett öga rött (2003), Montecore, en unik tiger (2006), and Allt jag inte minns (2015), this article explores the significance of memories and forgetting to the development of both individual and collective identity. More specifically, the article discusses which narrative devices Khemiri employs in showing how the identities of the novels’ protagonists are influenced by memories and forgetting, and deliberates what the implications of Khemiri’s novels may be, for our understanding of individual as well as collective identity in today’s culturally diverse Scandinavian societies.
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- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- How similar are Heimskringla and Egils saga? An application of Burrows’ delta to Icelandic texts
- New Nordic Environments in Eyvind Johnson’s Factual and Fictional Prose, 1928–1932
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- Reviews
- Eldar Heide/Karen Bek-Pedersen:New Focus on Retrospective Methods. Resuming Methodological Discussions: Case Studies from Northern Europe
- Alessia Bauer:Laienastrologie im nachreformatorischen Island
- Anna Catharina Horn:Lov og tekst i middelalderen. Produksjon og resepsjon av Magnus Lagabøtes landslov
- Sven-Aage Jørgensen:Elementær filologisk-litterær hermeneutik. En historisk skitse
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- How similar are Heimskringla and Egils saga? An application of Burrows’ delta to Icelandic texts
- New Nordic Environments in Eyvind Johnson’s Factual and Fictional Prose, 1928–1932
- The Art of Accepting: Ageing-as-art in Max Frisch’s Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän and Lars Gustafsson’s En kakelsättares eftermiddag
- Orte und Nicht-Orte im Werk Klaus Rifbjergs
- Minne, glemsel og identitet i Jonas Hassen Khemiris romaner
- Reviews
- Eldar Heide/Karen Bek-Pedersen:New Focus on Retrospective Methods. Resuming Methodological Discussions: Case Studies from Northern Europe
- Alessia Bauer:Laienastrologie im nachreformatorischen Island
- Anna Catharina Horn:Lov og tekst i middelalderen. Produksjon og resepsjon av Magnus Lagabøtes landslov
- Sven-Aage Jørgensen:Elementær filologisk-litterær hermeneutik. En historisk skitse
- Armen Avanessian/Sophie Wennerscheid (Eds.):Kierkegaard and Political Theory. Religion, Aesthetics, Politics and the Intervention of the Single Individual
- Sophie Wennerscheid:“Close your eyes”: Phantasma, Kraft und Dunkelheit in der skandinavischen Literatur