Swedish-American Borderlands

Dag Blanck is professor of North American studies and director of the Swedish Institute for North American Studies at Uppsala University and director of the Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center at Augustana College. He is author of The Creation of an Ethnic Identity: Being Swedish American in the Augustana Synod, 1860–1917 and recipient of the Carl Sandburg Medal from the Swedish-American Historical Society. Adam HjorthÉn is postdoctoral researcher at the Free University of Berlin and at Stockholm University. He received the Loubat Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters in 2018 and is author of Cross-Border Commemorations: Celebrating Swedish Settlement in America.

"Readable and informative, exploring topics from various angles but always through the lens of borderlands. The essays address issues often neglected in the literature to date, providing welcome new perspectives and discussions."-CHOICE"The volume is not only a worthwhile read and a valuable resource for researchers in American studies; it is also an invitation for new research on European-North American borderlands."-European Journal of American Culture"The anthology offers a timely collection of succinct, multidisciplinary essays written by established researchers and some newcomers to the field. Altogether, Swedish-American Borderlands provides a groundbreaking next step in the study of borders, both geographic and metaphoric."-Scandinavian Studies

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Conceptualizing Swedish-American RelationsDag Blanck and Adam HjorthÉnPart I. Across Waters and Lands1. Reservation Borderlands: Gender and Scandinavian Land Taking on Native American LandKaren V. Hansen2. Borderlands and Lived Encounters: The Swedish Immigrant, Interiority, and HomePhilip J. Anderson3. Imagining Borders and Heartland through LegendJennifer Eastman Attebery4. A Musical Borderland: How Jazz in Sweden Became Domesticated, 1920–1960Ulf Jonas BjÖrk5. Ancestral Relations: The Twentieth-Century Making of Swedish-American GenealogyAdam HjorthÉn6. Academics on the Move: The Nature and Significance of a Swedish-American Academic BorderlandDag Blanck7. The Role of Design in a Swedish-American LandscapeFrida RosenbergPart II. Exchanges and Entanglements8. Borderlands in Another World: How Sweden Envisioned New Sweden, circa 1638–1702Charlotta Forss9. Captain Jack’s Whip and Borderlands of Swedish-Indigenous EncountersGunlÖg Fur10. Double Life: American and Swedish Biographies of John EricssonThomas J. Brown and Svea Larson11. Swedish-American Cookbooks: Linguistic Borderlands in RecipesAngela Hoffman and Merja KytÖ12. A Postwar Italian Kitchen Shining in the Swedish-American BorderlandsFranco Minganti13. Imaginary Borderlands: Ingmar Bergman’s and Michelangelo Antonioni’s Cultural Contact ZonesMaaret Koskinen14. Political Correctness in Sweden: A Borderland Conceptual HistoryMagnus UllÉn15. History and Heritage in Bishop Hill, Illinois: Preservation, Representation, and Tourism in a Swedish-American BorderlandAdam Kaul and Margaret Farrar16. Negotiating the American Civil War: Memories and Gender in Swedish American Civil War ReenactmentMarie BennedahlContributorsIndex