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En studie av plats i Sara Stridsbergs roman Beckomberga – ode till min familj

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Author

  • Gustav Haggren

Summary, in English

This essay is a study of space and place in Sara Stridsberg’s novel: Beckomberga – ode till min familj (english title: The Gravity of Love). The essay is an analysis of Stridsberg’s image of the mental institution Beckomberga through Michel Foucaults ideas on heterotopias: other places or realized utopias. The main focus has been Foucaults term heterotopia of deviation, a term of which the mental institution is the main example. The essay strives to show that a place in literature is never just a place to be populated by characters; a place can be a different place for every different character and it has the power to be both subversive and submissive.

Publishing year

2016

Language

Swedish

Document type

Student publication for Bachelor's degree

Topic

  • Languages and Literatures

Keywords

  • heterotopi
  • Michel Foucault
  • Sara Stridsberg
  • plats
  • rumslighet
  • rum
  • mentalsjukhus
  • Beckomberga
  • Mikail Bakhtin
  • heterotopia
  • space
  • place
  • heterotopia of deviation
  • mental institution

Supervisor

  • Elisabeth Friis