Iceland: Uncovering the past in Nordic Literature with Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir

Knowledge on the Nordics

Listen to this podcast if you are interested in finding out more about:

• Contemporary Icelandic literature to read in English translation;
• Currents in Icelandic and Nordic literature on rewriting the past;
• The exoticising of Iceland and the North; and,
• Nordic noir as a category in literature and film.

Join the editor of nordics.info, Nicola Witcombe on her fourth virtual visit around the Nordic countries in the podcast series The Nordics Uncovered: Critical Voices from the Region. Gunnþórunn and Nicola spoke on 24th February 2021 when they were frequently interrupted by earthquakes.
The 5th in the series is with Lill-Ann Körber, Professor at the School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University in Denmark about Nordic postcolonialism, amongst other things.
Find out more on nordics.info.

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Capitole

1. Iceland: Uncovering the past in Nordic Literature with Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir (00:00:00)

2. The 2008 banking crisis in Iceland and Ireland (00:05:10)

3. Memory studies and literature (00:12:54)

4. Examples of Icelandic literature (00:15:40)

5. Forgetting as well as remembering (00:18:23)

6. Criticism of the Nordic noir term (00:21:25)

7. Is Nordic noir just a marketing tool? (00:25:15)

8. Iceland as exotic (00:29:05)

9. Consistent narrative in the strive for independence and postcolonialism (00:31:30)