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Swedish whiteness as white terror and non-white rage in antiracist Sweden
Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Language, Literature and Intercultural Studies (from 2013). (Kulturvetenskapliga forskargruppen)ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6775-6476
2023 (English)In: Race in Sweden: Racism and antiracism in the world’s first “colourblind” nation / [ed] Tobias Hübinette, Catrin Lundström, Peter Wikström, Abingdon: Routledge, 2023, 1st, p. 114-138Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

In this chapter, a selection of fictive and autobiographical texts by non-white Swedish authors from the 1990s and onwards are examined. These are texts that variously explore themes and motifs of Swedish colonialism, Swedish race biology and the Swedish far right. Specifically, the chapter presents a study of Swedish whiteness from the margins, in the form of non-white Swedes and their perspectives, analyses and understandings of the white Swedish majority society and white Swedes. In the textual corpus, non-white characters, as portrayed by non-white authors, experience fraught, threatening or otherwise difficult encounters with the far right and with Swedish whiteness, which together emerge as a collective experience of white terror. In addition to white terror, this study also employs affect theory to explore a topos of non-white rage within this body of non-white Swedish literature. This sense of rage is explored in relation to both its fictionally and narratively articulated origin and target. It appears as connected to the contemporary growth of the Swedish far right, but importantly also emerges as a symptom of and reaction to today’s racially hyper-segregated Sweden.

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Abingdon: Routledge, 2023, 1st. p. 114-138
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Cultural Studies
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Intercultural Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-97713DOI: 10.4324/9781003345763-6Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85192291834ISBN: 9781032385891 (print)ISBN: 9781003345763 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-97713DiVA, id: diva2:1819282
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Swedish Research Council, 2019-03291Available from: 2023-12-13 Created: 2023-12-13 Last updated: 2024-06-17Bibliographically approved

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