Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment

This work presents ecocritical research on literature, film and other media from northern Europe. Examining the role of culture, history and society in the forming of Nordic narratives of nature and the environment, the anthology offers a comprehensive and multi-faceted overview of the most recent ecocritical research in Scandinavian studies.

Introduction: Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment

Reinhard Hennig, Anna-Karin Jonasson, and Peter Degerman

Part I: Nordic Anthropocene Narratives

1. "The Safest Place on Earth": Cultural Imaginaries of Safety in Scandinavia

Lauren E. LaFauci

2. Moving Mountains: Cinema, Deep Time, and Climate Change in Hanna Ljungh's I am Mountain, to Measure Impermanence

Anna Sofia Rossholm

3. "Visionary Cartography": The Aesthetic Mediation of the Anthropocene in Kaspar Colling Nielsen's Mount Copenhagen

Jø rgen Bruhn

4. Nordic Nature on the Edge of the North Sea: Kjersti Vik's Mandø

Katie Ritson

5. The Tale of The Great Deluge: Risto Isomä ki's The Sands of Sarasvati as Climate Fiction

Toni Lahtinen

Part II: Language, Aesthetics, and the Non-Human in Nordic Environments

6. Of Wildflowers and Butterflies: Interrogating Species Names in Norwegian Poetry from the National Romantic to the Anthropocene

Jenna Coughlin

7. From Anthropomorphism to Ecomorphism: Figurative Language in Tarjei Vesaas' Fuglane and Stina Aronson's Hitom himlen

Beatrice G. Reed

8. Botanics in Dystopian Environments: Human-Plant Encounters in Contemporary Finnish-language Dystopian Fiction

Hanna Samola

9. Interspecies Encounters - An Eco-Ethical Approach to Frida Nilsson's Ishavspirater

Nina Goga

Part III: Environmental Justice and the Postcolonial North

10. The Nature of Hunger: Karl August Tavaststjerna's Hå rda tider

Frederike Felcht

11. Scandinavian Wilderness and Violence: Two Women Travelling in Sá pmi 1907-1916

Kari Haarder Ekman

12. 'Extractivism' in Sá pmi: Elegiac Ecojustice in Liselotte Wajstedt's Film Kiruna Space Road and Marja Helander's Silence Photographs

Cheryl J. Fish