Nordic War Stories

World War II as History, Fiction, Media, and Memory

Buch | Softcover

362 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-341-2 (ISBN)

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Situated on Europe’s northern periphery, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden found themselves caught between warring powers during World War II. Ultimately, these nations survived the conflict as sovereign states whose wartime experiences have profoundly shaped their historiography, literature, cinema and memory cultures. Nordic War Stories explores the commonalities and divergences among the five Nordic countries, examining national historiographies alongside representations of the war years in canonical literary works, travel writing, and film media. Together, they comprise a valuable companion that challenges the myth of Scandinavian homogeneity while demonstrating the powerful influence that the war continues to exert on national identities.

Marianne Stecher-Hansen is a Professor in the Department of Scandinavian Studies, University of Washington.

List of Illustrations

Editor’s Acknowledgements

Editor’s Introduction

Marianne Stecher-Hansen

Part I: War Historiography

Chapter 1. Finland in World War II—Tragedy, Survival, and Good Wars

Juhana H. Aunesluoma

Chapter 2. Danish Historical Narratives of the Occupation—The Promises and Lies of April 9th

Sofie Lene Bak

Chapter 3. The Norwegian War Experience—Occupied and Allied

Tom Kristiansen

Chapter 4. The Icelandic National Narrative and World War II—“Freedom and Culture”

Guðmundur Hálfdanarson

Chapter 5. Sweden’s Ambiguous War—Contradiction and Controversy

John Gilmour

Part II: War Literature – Archive

Chapter 6. Karin Boye as Ambivalent Spectator of Fascism

Amanda Doxtater

Chapter 7. Isak Dinesen in Hitler’s Berlin—Neutrality’s Cloak in “Letters from a Land at War”

Marianne Stecher-Hansen

Chapter 8. Sigrid Undset’s Problematic Propaganda – The Call for Democracy in Return to the Future

Christine Hamm

Part III: War Literature – Canon

Chapter 9. Hans Christian Branner—Angst and the Existential Crisis of War in Denmark

Mark Mussari

Chapter 10. Crises of Memory in Norway’s Occupation Novel—Sigurd Hoel’s Meeting at the Milestone

Dean Krouk

Chapter 11. The Battle over Finnish Cultural Memory of War—Väinö Linna’s The Unknown Soldier

Julia Pajunen

Chapter 12. Investigating Sweden’s Postwar Neutrality—Ethics in Per Olov Enquist’s The Legionnaires

Jan Krogh Nielsen

Chapter 13. The Allied Occupation of Iceland—Indriði G. Þorsteinsson’s North of War

Daisy Neijmann

Part IV: War Cinema – Remembering and Forgetting

Chapter 14. Somewhere in Sweden – Quality Fiction and Popularized History in the World War II Television Series

Erik Hedling

Chapter 15. Icelandic Cinema and the American Military Presence – The Girl Gogo, Atomic Station, and Devil’s Island

Pétur Valsson

Chapter 16. War Memory, Compassion, and the Finnish Child – Klaus Härö’s Mother of Mine

Liina-Ly Roos

Chapter 17. The War Film as Cultural Memory in Denmark – April 9th and Land of Mine

Marianne Stecher-Hansen

Chapter 18. Acts of Remembering – Audiovisual Memory and the New Norwegian Occupation Drama

Gunnar Iversen

Chapter 19. Finland Returning to War on Screen – The Unknown Soldier of 2017

John Sundholm

Editor’s Epilogue

Marianne Stecher-Hansen

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.07.2024
Reihe/Serie	Worlds of Memory
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-80539-341-3 / 1805393413
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-341-2 / 9781805393412
Zustand	Neuware