Centring on the Peripheries: Studies in Scandinavian, Scottish, Gaelic and Greenlandic Literature Book

Acknowledgements     8
Introduction     9
Centring on the Peripheries   Cairns Craig     13
The Gnarled-Pine People: Humility as Nobility in Finland-Swedish Letters   Clas Zilliacus     39
Edith Sodergran: When Karelia was the Centre   Nalle Valtiala     49
Norrland and the Question of Cultural Identity   Anders Ohman     59
Norrlandic Revivalism in the Novels and Short Stories of Torgny Lindgren   Anders Persson     69
Nordic National Borderlands in Selma Lagerlof   Bjarne Thorup Thomsen     79
The Fragmented Body: Transgressing the Periphery. Two Novels by Herbjorg Wassmo and Christian Krohg   Steinvor Palsson     95
Stille Eksistenser: Silence, Language and Landscape in Gronfeldt, Greig and Warner   C. Claire Thomson     103
The Debatable Lands and Passable Boundaries of Gender and Nation   Aileen Christianson     119
'To say "beautiful" in Swedish': The Periphery as Centre in Stephen Greenhorn's Passing Places   Bill Findlay     131
Origins, Centres and Peripheries: The Case of Early Scottish Literature   R. D.S. Jack     143
'It follows me, that black island...': Portraying and Positioning the Hebridean 'Fringe' in Twentieth-Century Gaelic Literature   Donald E. Meek     153
Questioning the Idea of the Marginal: Aspects of the Poetry of Christian Matras   Anne-Kari Skarohamar     165
Beyond the Periphery: Icelandic Literature in a Scandinavian Context   Baldur Hafstao     177
'New' Icelandic Literature: Icelandic-Canadian Challenges to Icelandic National Identity   Daisy Neijmann     185
Stepping off the Map? Greenlandic Literature between Nation and Globalisation   Kirsten Thisted     201
Notes on Contributors     211
Index     215