A Carnival of Sailing Homes and Shipwrecks<subtitle>Ocean and Society in Hallgrímur Helgason’s Historical Fiction</subtitle>
In his historical novels Sixty Kilos of Sunshine (2018) and Sixty Kilos of Knockouts (2021), Hallgrímur Helgason describes the role of the “herring adventure” in Icelanders’ swift move to modernity whilst gradually moving towards independence from centuries of foreign rule. The author uses grotesque...
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| Language: | Danish |
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Scandinavian University Press/Universitetsforlaget
2023-03-01
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| Series: | Edda |
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| Online Access: | http://www.idunn.no/doi/10.18261/edda.110.1.4 |