Young Heroes of Post-Heroism: Negotiations of the Heroic in Scandinavian Young-Adult Fiction after 1945 (D11*)

• Subject Area: European and American Literary and Cultural Studies
• Term: from 2016 to 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 181750155

The project will study how the young-adult fiction of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden treats and problematizes the status of the heroic in Scandinavia¿s post-heroic welfare societies. The goal is to work out how young-adult novels from 1945 to the present position themselves with regard to the heroic and how they give it narrative form. The analysis will concentrate on cultural hybridization through migration, changes in gender roles, and the de-solidarization of society in the course of the crisis of the welfare state.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 948: Heroes - Heroisations - Heroisms. Transformations and Conjunctures from Antiquity to the Modern Age
• Applicant Institution: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Joachim Grage