Abstrakt
"This book focuses on migration as it has manifested itself in literature and culture in nineteenth, twentieth and early twenty-first century Northern Europe, more concretely, in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland. The authors examine the theme of migration in relation to the questions of identity, both national and individual. The basic premise is the idea that migration almost always leads to a disturbance of identity and creates a potential for conflicts between individuals, as well as between groups of people.
The book has two parts. The first discusses relevant theoretical and historical issues that form the conceptual background of the main theme. The second part of the book analyzes some concrete cases of disturbance, disruption and hybridization of identity, as they are represented in literary works linked to the European North.
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