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- Title
"I come from crap country, and you come from luxury country": Ugly Encounters in Scandinavian Au-Pair Novels.
- Authors
Oxfeldt, Elisabeth
- Abstract
The article discusses contemporary novels from Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, which explore the relationship between host families and their au pairs. These include Sara Kadefors's "Fågelbovägen," Selma Lønning Aarø's "Jeg kommer snart," and Kirsten Thorup's "Tilfældets gud." Topics discussed include postfeminist issues discussed in these in literary works including happiness, social equality, and gender equality.
- Subjects
SCANDINAVIAN literature; KADEFORS, Sara; THORUP, Kirsten; POSTFEMINISM; HAPPINESS; EQUALITY; GENDER inequality
- Publication
Scandinavian Studies, 2017, Vol 89, Issue 4, p468
- ISSN
0036-5637
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5406/scanstud.89.4.0468