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Precarity and Class Consciousness in Contemporary Swedish Working-Class Literature

open access: yesHumanities, 2023
This article analyses aesthetical–political strategies for the promotion of class consciousness among workers in a few examples of contemporary Swedish working-class literature from different genres that describe and criticize precarious working ...
Magnus Nilsson
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Working-Class Women’s Literature: An Introduction to Study

open access: yesRadical Teacher, 2014
Writing ‒ and indeed thinking ‒ about working-class literature presents a number of unique problems. To begin with, what do we mean by “working-class literature”? Literature about working-class people, literature by them, or literature addressed to them?
Paul Lauter
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”Ett långt golv att gå sig trött på” [PDF]

open access: yesTidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap, 2017
”A Tiresome Walk on an Endless Street”. Prostitution and the Prostitutes in Ivar Lo-Johansson’s Kungsgatan Ivar Lo-Johansson’s novel Kungsgatan (1935) is set in Stockholm in the late 1920s, a period when the migration from the Swedish countryside to ...
Maria Wahlström
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Literature and Class

open access: yes, 2014
Working-class literature has, at least since the 1930s, constituted a central strand in Swedish literature. Literature and class analyzes the aesthetical-political strategies for criticizing class and class injustice deployed in modern Swedish working-class literature, thereby contributing to the ...
Magnus Nilsson
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Working-Class Literature: Pedagogy and a Course Design [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Literature and Arts, 2014
Many working students have some skepticism about the worth of studying literature in the university classroom. They assume that the subject matter of literature taught to them doesn’t help them, in a certain manner, to connect more to their real life working situations.
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Dov’era l’Io fare il Noi. Una conversazione con Alberto Prunetti sulla letteratura working-class

open access: yesBetween, 2023
This interview with Alberto Prunetti focuses on his work both as a writer (Amianto, 108 metri, Nel girone dei bestemmiatori), and as the editor of Alegre’s “Working-class” series and one of the organisers of the Working-Class Literature Festival (Campi ...
Nicole Siri
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“BREAD & ROSES”: SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF LITERATURE AND ITS RELEVANCE TO THE PRESENT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE WORKING CLASS

open access: yesSaksama, 2023
The article "Bread & Roses": An Analysis of the Sociology of Literature and Its Relevance to the Present in the Context of the Working Class" was created with the intention of explaining how working class people express their grievances in the form of ...
Faza Fauziyyah
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Faire série. Les poètes de métier

open access: yesCarnets, 2023
What happens when a baker, a doctor, a notary or a teacher writes a poem about his job? Nothing more than an amateur text, one more, which will be lost in oblivion. But when this text is published, read in society, recited at a banquet?
Paul Aron
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The end of the working class and the tragic and ridiculous perversion of industry: Paolo Volponi’s Le mosche del capitale (1974-1989)

open access: yesRivista di Estetica, 2022
Le mosche del capitale [The Flies of Capital] is Volponi’s last novel, and it is inspired by autobiographical events, which are depicted at a historical level.
Tiziano Toracca
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Arbetarpoesin och offentligheterna

open access: yesTidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap, 2020
Working-Class Poetry and Publics: The Example of Stig Sjödin The Swedish poet Stig Sjödin (1917–1993) is generally recognized as an important figure in both Swedish literary history and the history of Swedish working-class literature.
Magnus Nilsson
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