Prologue Acknowledgements Introduction: The Writer as Ethnographer 1.Ambiguous Arrival 2. Craft and Career 3. Pathways of Publishing 4. Storylines and Styles 5.Writing Truth to Power 6. Performing Literature 7. Creative Translations 8. Future Scenarios. Index
Biography
Helena Wulff is Professor Emerita of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University. Her research interests include expressive cultural form – dance, art, images, text. Key engagements are now in the anthropologies of literature and writing.
Migrant Writing in Sweden is not just an example of good writing. It is a model of writing about serious issues, drawing on writers' autobiographies and their experiences in Sweden. It raises questions about Sweden, its typical sense of itself and its complicated way of treating immigrants. And it is really also about immigration more broadly, about places that take immigrants and the ideologies and emotions that the whole process entails.
-Virginia R. Dominguez, Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Attentive to the sounds and nuances of immigrant poetry and prose in Swedish, Helena Wulff materializes this extraordinarily rich literature for an Anglophone readership. An engaging experiment in method and writing, Migrant Writing in Sweden is also a tribute to the triumph of art over pain and despair.
-Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University
