Dansk grønlandslitteratur og jagten på det antropocæne
Danish Greenland-literature and the hunt for the anthropocene This article examines the role of climate change and the Anthropocene in contemporary Danish literature about Greenland. I argue that even though Danish literature in general has been very concerned with anthropogenic climate change in r...
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Aalborg University Open Publishing
2023-01-01
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| Online Access: | https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/ak/article/view/7634 |
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| author | Emilie Dybdal |
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| description | Danish Greenland-literature and the hunt for the anthropocene
This article examines the role of climate change and the Anthropocene in contemporary Danish literature about Greenland. I argue that even though Danish literature in general has been very concerned with anthropogenic climate change in recent years, this is not the case for Danish literature specifically about Greenland. To illustrate this, I begin with a short literary overview, after which I focus on the novel Korsveje i Nord (2015) by Bjarne Ljungdahl. This book, I define as an example of cli-fi (“climate fiction” or “climate change fiction”) that does engage with Greenland, and I analyze its view on the Anthropocene. Following this main part of the article, I briefly discuss what potentials cli-fi’s such as Korsveje i Nord might hold in the discussion of anthropogenic climate change and the Anthropocene, and I turn my attention to literature about Greenland from outside Denmark.
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| spelling | doaj.art-be82976a90e74821a2d7da320b84267b2024-04-02T06:43:09ZdanAalborg University Open PublishingAkademisk Kvarter1904-00082023-01-01Dansk grønlandslitteratur og jagten på det antropocæneEmilie DybdalDanish Greenland-literature and the hunt for the anthropocene This article examines the role of climate change and the Anthropocene in contemporary Danish literature about Greenland. I argue that even though Danish literature in general has been very concerned with anthropogenic climate change in recent years, this is not the case for Danish literature specifically about Greenland. To illustrate this, I begin with a short literary overview, after which I focus on the novel Korsveje i Nord (2015) by Bjarne Ljungdahl. This book, I define as an example of cli-fi (“climate fiction” or “climate change fiction”) that does engage with Greenland, and I analyze its view on the Anthropocene. Following this main part of the article, I briefly discuss what potentials cli-fi’s such as Korsveje i Nord might hold in the discussion of anthropogenic climate change and the Anthropocene, and I turn my attention to literature about Greenland from outside Denmark. https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/ak/article/view/7634dansk grønlandslitteratur, Grønland, antropocæn, klimafiktion, cli-fi |
| spellingShingle | Emilie Dybdal Dansk grønlandslitteratur og jagten på det antropocæne Akademisk Kvarter dansk grønlandslitteratur, Grønland, antropocæn, klimafiktion, cli-fi |
| title | Dansk grønlandslitteratur og jagten på det antropocæne |
| title_full | Dansk grønlandslitteratur og jagten på det antropocæne |
| title_fullStr | Dansk grønlandslitteratur og jagten på det antropocæne |
| title_full_unstemmed | Dansk grønlandslitteratur og jagten på det antropocæne |
| title_short | Dansk grønlandslitteratur og jagten på det antropocæne |
| title_sort | dansk gronlandslitteratur og jagten pa det antropocaene |
| topic | dansk grønlandslitteratur, Grønland, antropocæn, klimafiktion, cli-fi |
| url | https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/ak/article/view/7634 |
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