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SUMMARY:The Underpass: Urban Experience in Swedish Young Adult Literature 
 1890–2010 - Lydia Wistisen\, Stockholm University
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CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
DESCRIPTION:In my project _The Underpass: Urban Experience in Swedish Youn
 g Adult Literature 1890–2010_\, I examine continuity and change in repre
 sentations of urban teenagers from the turn of the century 1900 to present
  day\, focusing especially on intersections between age\, gender\, class\,
  ethnicity and sexuality. The methodology is inspired by spatial studies a
 nd is founded on the idea that the city of Stockholm is a product of a con
 stant process of human practices\, perceptions and conceptions. \n\nAs ear
 ly as in the European Bildungsroman\, the city has gathered the ideas of y
 outh and progression and during the 20th century Sweden’s capital Stockh
 olm has become the most common setting in Swedish young adult literature. 
 In literature for young adults\, boys’ and girls’ books Stockholm has 
 been used to communicate dreams and fears\, for pleasure and education\, t
 o amuse and socialise. I am especially interested in places and objects\, 
 that during certain periods become powerful symbols of urban youth\, as th
 e shopping mall of the 1950s\, the beer can of the 1970s\, or the graffiti
  covered underground wall of the 2000s. For this presentation\, I will foc
 us on a couple of examples from Swedish young adult literature\, depicting
  different sorts of rebellious appropriation of public urban space. \n\n*L
 ydia Wistisen* is a PhD student at the University of Stockholm since Febru
 ary 2012. In the spring term 2017 she will defend her thesis _The Underpas
 s: Urban Experience in Swedish Young Adult Literature 1890–2010_. Her re
 search interests include children’s and young adult literature\, spatial
  studies\, urbanity\, and youth culture. She teaches at the Department of 
 Culture and Aesthetics and Department of Gender Studies at Stockholm Unive
 rsity and is also a co-editor of the literature\, art and philosophy magaz
 ine _Aiolos_. \n
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, DMB
 \, Room GS4
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