Vol. 8 • No. 1 • 2014 Published by Umeå University & The Royal Skyttean Society Umeå 2014 The Journal of Northern Studies is published with support from The Royal Skyttean Society and Umeå University Editorial Note This special issue of the Journal of Northern Studies is published in view of Umeå having been appointed the European Capital of Culture 2014. The editors would like to thank editorial board-member professor Annegret Heitmann for acting as guest-editor for the issue. © The authors and Journal of Northern Studies ISSN 1654-5915 Cover picture Detail from the work of art Lev! [‘Live!’] created by the artists FA+, namely Ingrid Falk and Gustavo Aguerre. Lev! is a glass tunnel in the centre of Umeå with pictures from the writer Sara Lidman’s home area in Northern Västerbotten and with quota- tions from her authorship. In translation the text reads: ‘– And have you heard that in the south where they have everything and guzzle down apples and wheat and rose flowers they haven’t got cloudberries! – It serves them right!’ The quotation is from Lidman’s book Hjortronlandet [‘Cloudberry country,’ 1955]. Photo: Lotta Hortéll Design and layout Lotta Hortéll and Leena Hortéll, Ord & Co i Umeå AB Fonts: Berling Nova and Futura Paper: Invercote Creato 260 gr and Artic volume high white 115 gr Printed by TMG Tabergs Contents / Sommaire / Inhalt Editors & Editorial board ................................................................................................................5 Contributors ...................................................................................................................................... 7 Birgitta Holm, Foreword. Norrland with no Borders .............................................................11 Annegret Heitmann, ‘A Window on the World.’ Introduction. 13 Bjarne Thorup Thomsen, Eyvind Johnson’s Hybrid North. Dynamics of Place and Time in Travelogues and Memory Sketches 1943–1963 ...............................................19 Antje Wischmann, Performing Space—A Modernist Hembygd. An Exploration of Sara Lidman’s Works . 37 Helena Forsås-Scott, Telling Tales Testing Boundaries. The Radicalism of Kerstin Ekman’s Norrland ..........................................................................................................................67 Krzysztof Bak, What is Hidden in Västerbotten’s Stomach? On Augustine and Torgny Lindgren’s Minnen ............................................................................................................91 Elisabeth Herrmann, Norrland’s Regional Literature as World Literature. Per Olov Enquist’s Literary Work .............................................................................................143 Thomas Mohnike, The Joy of Narration. Mikael Niemi’s Popular Music from Vittula .............................................................................................................................................. 169 Sammanfattningar på svenska ..................................................................................................187 Instructions to Authors. 194 3 EDITORS Editor-in-chief: Professor Lars-Erik Edlund, Dept. of Language Studies, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden Tel.+46-(0)90-7867887 [email protected] Assistant editors: Professor emerita Barbro Klein, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS),Linneanum, Thunbergsv. 2, SE-752 38 Uppsala, Sweden [email protected] Professor emeritus Kjell Sjöberg, Dept. of Wildlife, Fish, and Environmental Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), SE-901 83 Umeå, Sweden [email protected] Editorial secretary: Associate professor Olle Sundström, Dept. of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden Tel. +46-(0)90-786 7627 [email protected] EDITORIAL BOARD Professor Johann P. Arnason, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia; University of Akureyri, Iceland Professor emerita Louise Bäckman, Stockholm, Sweden Associate professor Ingela Bergman, The Silver Museum, Arjeplog, Sweden Professor Susan Brantly, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Professor Ken Coates, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Professor Yvon Csonka, Swiss Federal Statistical Office in Neuchâtel, Switzerland Professor emeritus Öje Danell, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden Professor François-Xavier Dillmann, École pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, France Professor Thomas A. DuBois, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Professor emeritus Aant Elzinga, University of Gothenburg, Sweden 5 Professor Ericka Engelstad, UiT The Arctic University of Norway Professor Sherrill E. Grace, University of British Columbia,Vancouver, Canada Professor Michael Harbsmeier, Roskilde University, Denmark Professor Annegret Heitmann, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany Reader, PhD Cornelia Lüdecke, University of Hamburg, Germany Professor Else Mundal, University of Bergen, Norway Professor emeritus Einar Niemi, UiT The Arctic University of Norway Professor Jill Oaks, University of Manitoba, Canada Professor Lars Östlund, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden Professor Anssi Paasi, University of Oulu, Finland Professor emeritus Andrejs Plakans, Iowa State University, Ames, USA Professor Neil Price, University of Aberdeen, UK Professor Håkan Rydving, University of Bergen, Norway Professor Elena N. Sibileva, Northern State Medical University, Archangelsk, Russia Professor emerita, Academician of Science, Anna-Leena Siikala, University of Helsinki, Finland Professor Peter Sköld, Umeå University, Sweden Professor Björn Wittrock, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), Uppsala, Sweden 6 CONTRIBUTORS Krzysztof Bak, Docent in Litteraturvetenskap at the Department of Liter- ature and History of Ideas at Stockholm University, and Dr. hab. at Zakład Filologii Szwedzkiej, Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Kraków. Has published monographs on P.D.A. Atterboms Lycksalighetens ö and Birgitta Trotzigs Dykungens dotter as well as articles on Swed- ish authors like Edith Södergran, Astrid Lindgren, Sara Lidman, Magnus Dahlström and Ulf Eriksson. He is especially interested in theoretical problems like intertextuality, hermeneutics, archetypal and myth theory and narratology. Helena Forsås-Scott, Professor of Swedish and Gender Studies, Universi- ty College London, retired 2010; Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Edinburgh; Honorary Research Associate, UCL; a Director of Norvik Press, London, and Co-ordinator of ‘Lagerlöf in English’ (2011–). Her books include Re-Writing the Script. Gen- der and Community in Elin Wägner (2009), Gender—Power—Text. Nordic Culture in the Twentieth Century (ed.) (2004), and Swedish Women’s Writing 1850–1995 (1997). Her research focuses on Swed- ish literature and especially women writers, with an emphasis on narrative and narration, subjectivity and identity, intermediality, and ecofeminism. Annegret Heitmann, Professor of Nordic Philology at the Ludwig-Maximil- ians-Universität München. Her main research interests are Scan- dinavian literature around 1900, intermediality, gender studies, concepts of beginnings and genres like autobiography and apho- risms. Recent book publications: Landnahme. Anfangserzählungen in der skandinavischen Literatur um 1900 (with H. Eglinger, 2010); Am Rand. Zur Poetik des skandinavischen Aphorismus (2012; with K. Yngborn and A.E. Doll); Tourismus als literarische und kulturelle Pra- xis (2013; ed. with St. M. Schröder). Elisabeth Herrmann joined the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Cana- da in 2006 as Visiting Associate Professor of German and Scandi- navian Literatures and Cultures. Her research focuses on collec- tive identities, cultural memory, regional and world literature, and processes of cultural interactions and transfer. She has published several articles, monographs, and encyclopaedia entries on contem- 7 porary Swedish authors such as Per Olov Enquist, Lars Gustafsson, Bodil Malmsten and Carl Johan Vallgren. Book publications in- clude: Das Ich im Dialog mit dem Wir. Die Literarisierung kultureller Migration als kritische Auseinandersetzung mit der eigenen kollektiven Identität in Werken zeitgenössischer schwedischer Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller (2006). Thomas Mohnike is Senior Lecturer (maître de conférences) in Scandina- vian studies at the Université de Strasbourg. His research interests include imaginative geographies and geographies of knowledge, fo- calizing on the use of literature in the making of identity, alterity, and otherness in Scandinavia, including postcolonial perspectives and the history of rewritings of Old Norse sources. Book publicati- ons include: Imaginierte Geographien. Der schwedischsprachige Reise- bericht der 1980er und 1990er Jahre und das Ende des Kalten Krieges (2007). Bjarne Thorup Thomsen is Reader in Scandinavian Literature in the Division of European Languages and Cultures at the University of Edin- burgh. He holds a cand.phil. degree from the University of Copen- hagen and a doctorate from Edinburgh University. His work is pri- marily focused on regional, national and transnational dimensions of Scandinavian novel and travel writing. He has also published on Danish literary history and working-class autobiographies and has an additional interest in the relationship between literature and Scandinavian silent cinema. His book publications include Cen- tring on the Peripheries (ed.) (2007) and Lagerlöfs litterære landvin- ding (2007). Antje Wischmann