Aesthetics and Politics of Linguistic Borders

Heidi Grönstrand is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Slavic and Baltic languages, Finnish, Dutch and German at Stockholm University. She has published on literary multilingualism and language ideologies in a variety of journals and edited books. In 2014– 2017, she led the research group Multilingualism in Contemporary Literature in Finland.Markus Huss is Assistant professor of German at the Department of Slavic and Baltic languages, Finnish, Dutch and German at Stockholm University. He has published on literary multilingualism, intermediality and multimodality, the relationship between historiography and literature, German and Swedish postwar literature and exile literature.Ralf Kauranen is a sociologist and comics scholar based at the Department of Finnish Literature at University of Turku. He has written on Finnish comics culture from different perspectives, political cartoons, transnationalism, and social class. In 2018-2020 he leads the project "Comics and Migration: Belonging, Narration, Activism" (migrationcomics.fi).

• AcknowledgementsPart I. Introduction1. Introduction: The processes and practices of multilingualism in literatureRalf Kauranen, Markus Huss & Heidi GrönstrandPart II. Multilingualism as a challenge to national borders2. Follow the translations! The transnational circulation of Hassan Blasim’s short storiesOlli Löytty3. Broken lineages, impossible affiliations: The Russian Baltic subject in Andrei Ivanov’s "Zola" and Peotäis põrmuEneken Laanes4. De-bordering comics culture: Multilingual publishing in the Finnish field of comicsRalf Kauranen5. The multilingual landscape of Sámi literature: Linguistic and cultural border crossing in the work of Sigbjørn SkådenKaisa Ahvenjärvi6. Kjartan Fløgstad’s Pampa Unión: A travel on the border of languages in Latin AmericaAnne Karine Kleveland7. Humour and shifting language borders in Umayya Abu-Hanna’s auto-fictional novel SinutHeidi Grönstrand8. An author’s view: To be a bridge between culturesZinaida Lindén9. The pilot’s son (short story)Zinaida LindénPart III. Multilingualism as problematization of language10. Language play and politics in contemporary Swedish hip-hopKarin Nykvist11. "Conversations in misspelled English": Partial comprehension and linguistic borderlands in Tomas Tranströmer’s Östersjöar. En dikt (Baltics)Markus Huss12. Transcending borders through multilingual intertextuality in Ville Tietäväinen’s graphic novel Näkymättömät kädetAura Nikkilä13. Multilingualism and the work of readers: Processes of linguistic bordering in three cases of contemporary Swedish language literature Julia Tidigs14. "So let me remain a stranger": Multilingualism and biscriptalism in the works of Finland-Swedish writer Tito CollianderHelena Bodin15. Urbanized folk life: Multilingual slang, gender and new voices in Finnish literatureKukku Melkas16. The permeable border: Anxieties of the mother tongue in contemporary Nordic poetry Elisabeth Friis17. The small mysteries of code-switching: A practitioner’s views on comics and multilingualismInterview with Mika Lietzén by Ralf Kauranen18. 1917 – Libau (comics short story)Mika LietzénList of contributors