Vol. 9 (2026): Coherence and Fragmentation: The Languages of the Nordic Countries and Their Interrelations Today
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To Scandinavia with Love, or It’s Complicated: Linguistic and Corporeal Border Dynamics in Johanna Frid’s Nora eller Brinn Oslo brinn

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  • Julia Tidigs
Julia Tidigs
Åbo Akademi University & University of Helsinki
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/lea-1824-484x-16549

Published 2026-05-15

Keywords

  • Bordering,
  • Endometriosis,
  • Literary Multilingualism,
  • Scandinavia,
  • Swedish Literature

Copyright (c) 2026 Julia Tidigs

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Abstract

The article is a study of border dynamics in Johanna Frid’s novel Nora eller Brinn Oslo brinn (2018). With a theoretical framework from literary multilingualism studies, the article shows how the topic of troubled borders between Scandinavian languages in the novel is entangled with questions of geographical, medial, emotional and corporeal borders. The troubled dynamics of borders is shown to be a central organising factor in the text. In addition, the friction between the thematical treatment of languages and the text’s multilingual praxis is analysed, focusing on its artistically productive effects regarding the experiences of the novel’s readers.

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