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  • 26 - The Region as an In-between Space: Tomas Tranströmer’s Östersjöar and the Making of an Archipelagic Nordic Literature

  • from Part IV - Cartographic Shifts
  • Edited by Debjani Ganguly, University of Virginia
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of World Literature
    Published online:
    17 August 2021
    Print publication:
    09 September 2021, pp 495-510

  • Summary

    The essay examines the concept of regional literature with Scandinavia as an example. Advocating for regional literature as a promising working space between the too smooth space of globality and the overly strict confines of national literature, the essay suggest the archipelago as a concept that keeps the region open to the world and yet assembled, heterogenous and recognizable at the same time. After a discussion of the concept it is developed further by way of a reading of Swedish Nobel Prize-winner Tomas Tranströmer’s 1979 long poem Östersjöar (The Baltics). On the basis of the reading and with recourse to previous discussion the essay ends by suggesting six imperatives for working with regional literature.