Lill-Ann Körber Livres

The Postcolonial North Atlantic. Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands have in common their history as Danish dependencies within a historically and geographically coherent region. The complex aftermaths of Denmark’s sovereignty over its North Atlantic territories and their ongoing nation building processes lie at the core of this book. Today, we are witnessing region building processes beyond bilateral links to Denmark. How do the countries position themselves, individually and collectively, vis-à-vis the European metropolitan centres, a larger transcontinental North Atlantic region, the 'hot' Arctic, and global histories of colonialism and decolonisation? By examining the region from cultural, literary, historical, political, anthropological and linguistic perspectives, the articles in this book shed light on Nordic colonialism and its understanding as 'exceptional', and challenge and modify established notions of postcolonialism. Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands are shown to be both the (former) subjects as well as the producers of cultural hierarchisations in an entangled world.

This book offers a diverse and groundbreaking account of the intersections between modernities and environments in the circumpolar global North, foregrounding the Arctic as a critical space of modernity, where the past, present, and future of the planet’s environmental and political systems are projected and imagined. Investigating the Arctic region as a privileged site of modernity, this book articulates the globally significant, but often overlooked, junctures between environmentalism and sustainability, indigenous epistemologies and scientific rhetoric, and decolonization strategies and governmentality. With international expertise made easily accessible, readers can observe and understand the rise and conflicted status of Arctic modernities, from the nineteenth century polar explorer era to the present day of anthropogenic climate change.

Der Strand wird zum Atelier, der männliche Körper zum Motiv, eine Kunsthalle zum Schwimmbad. Das Buch präsentiert mit Edvard Munch, Eugène Jansson, J. A. G. Acke und J. F. Willumsen vier skandinavische Künstler, die um 1910 das Baden, ihren eigenen nackten Körper und den männlichen Akt entdecken, mit Fotografie experimentieren und visuelle Autobiografien entwerfen. Die Reaktionen des Publikums reichten von Zensur bis zur Feier einer als spezifisch nordisch aufgefassten Natürlichkeit. Lill-Ann Körber erörtert die Geschichten hinter den Bildern, eröffnet einen neuen Blick auf Edvard Munch und verbindet Kunst-, Medien- und Kulturgeschichte mit Fragen nach Männlichkeit und Sexualität.