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Vi er naturen, der skriver digte: Materialitet, sted, krop og teknologi i Amalie Smiths forfatterskab
Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Language, Literature and Intercultural Studies (from 2013). (KuFo - The Research Group for Culture Studies)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0413-1476
2026 (Danish)Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)Alternative title
We Are Nature That Writes Poems : Materiality, Place, Body, and Technology in Amalie Smith’s Authorship (English)
Abstract [en]

This PhD dissertation explores the new materialist dimensions of Amalie Smith’s Danish authorship through close readings of three central works: De næste 5000 dage (2010), I CIVIL (2012), and THREAD RIPPER (2020). The dissertation situates Smith within the context of the so-called “material turn” in contemporary Danish literature and demonstrates how her hybrid and experimental works activate key ideas from new materialist theory, including thinkers such as Karen Barad, Jane Bennett, Donna Haraway, and Bruno Latour.

By combining a general introduction to Smith’s aesthetics and poetics with in-depth literary analyses, the dissertation investigates how her writing challenges dualistic separations between human and nonhuman, subject and object, technology and body. It shows how Smith’s literary practice not only reflects but also expands and refines new materialist ontology and epistemology—particularly through techniques such as montage, intermediality, and an affective approach to knowledge and perception.

The dissertation argues that Smith’s works can be read as an aesthetic inquiry into the human relation to the world in the Anthropocene. By emphasizing connections and networks between human and nonhuman, living and non-living phenomena, her literature contributes to a renewed sensitivity toward material agency and the entangled complexity of the world. As such, the dissertation offers both a comprehensive introduction to and analysis of Smith’s authorship, and a contribution to the broader understanding of new materialism’s influence on contemporary literature.

Abstract [da]

Denne ph.d.-afhandling undersøger det nymaterialistiske spor i Amalie Smiths forfatterskab gennem læsninger af tre centrale værker: De næste 5000 dage (2010), I CIVIL (2012) og THREAD RIPPER (2020). Afhandlingen placerer Smith i konteksten af den såkaldte "materielle drejning" i nyere dansk litteratur og viser, hvordan hendes hybride og eksperimenterende værker aktualiserer centrale ideer fra nymaterialistiske teoridannelser, herunder tænkere som Karen Barad, Jane Bennett, Donna Haraway og Bruno Latour.

Ved at kombinere en overordnet introduktion til Smiths æstetik og poetik med dybdegående værkanalyser undersøger afhandlingen, hvordan Smiths litteratur udfordrer dualistiske opdelinger mellem menneske og ikke-menneske, subjekt og objekt, teknologi og krop. Afhandlingen viser, hvordan Smiths litterære praksis ikke blot spejler, men også udvider og forfiner den nymaterialistiske ontologi og epistemologi – særligt gennem greb som montage, intermedialitet og en affektiv tilgang til viden og erkendelse.

Afhandlingen argumenterer for, at Smiths værker kan læses som en æstetisk undersøgelse og tænken over menneskets relation til verden i det antropocæne. Ved at betone forbindelser og netværk, mellem menneske og ikke-menenske, levende og ikke-levende fænomener, bidrager hendes litteratur til en ny sensibilitet over for materiens agens og verdens indlejrede kompleksitet. Afhandlingen tilbyder dermed både en samlet introduktion til, og analyse af Smiths forfatterskab og et bidrag til forståelsen af nymaterialismens indflydelse på samtidslitteraturen.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Karlstad: Karlstads universitet, 2026. , p. 278
Series
Karlstad University Studies, ISSN 1403-8099 ; 2026:12
Keywords [en]
New materialism, Amalie Smith, Place, Body, Technology
Keywords [da]
Nymaterialisme, Amalie Smith, Sted, Krop, Teknologi
National Category
General Literature Studies
Research subject
Comparative Literature
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-108321DOI: 10.59217/ntme1364ISBN: 978-91-7867-669-9 (print)ISBN: 978-91-7867-670-5 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-108321DiVA, id: diva2:2031501
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2026-03-06, 12A138, Geijersalen, Karlstad University, Karlstad, 10:00 (Swedish)
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Available from: 2026-02-13 Created: 2026-01-23 Last updated: 2026-02-13Bibliographically approved

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