Magnus Nilsson
Professor

Presentation

Main research interests: working-class literature, literature and the precariat, comics, urbanity in literature, literature and ethnicity, marxist literary theory, and heavy metal.

I am the leader of the project "Precariat, Precarity and Precariousness in (Post-) Welfare-State Scandinavian Literatures", which is funded by the Swedish Research Council.

I am also one of the editors of the book series Malmö University Studies in Class and Culture.

Selected publications in English:

• "Marxism and Human Rights aganst Capitalism" (with Daniel Hedlund) in Encyclopedia of Marxism and Education

• "Economic inequality, Marxist theory, and Swedish-language working-class literature" in Studia Neophilologica

• "Class, Taste, and Literature: The Case of Ivar Lo-Johansson and Swedish Working- Class Literature" in Journal of Working-Class Studies

• Working-Class Literature(s): Historical and International Perspectives, (co-edited with John Lennon, University of South Florida). The collection is presented in this film, with English subtitles.

• "Working-class comics? Proletarian self-reflexiveness in Mats Källblad’s graphic novel Hundra år i samma klass" in Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics

• "Defining Working-Class Literature(s): A comparative approach between U.S. Working-Class Studies and Swedish Literary History" (with John Lennon) in New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry, Vol.8, No. 2 (April 2016) Pp. 39-61

• "Socialist Thought and Comics Form – Narrative and Rhetorical Strategies in Kate Evan' Red Rosa" in Scandinavian Journal of Comic Art Vol.3 No. 2, 3-22.

• ""Multicultural Literatures" in a Comparative Perspective'" In: Literature, Language, and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia and the Low Countries, eds. Behschnitt, Wolfgang; De Mul, Sarah; Minnaard, Liesbeth. Amsterdam: Rodopi. pp. 1–15. Textxet Studies in Comparative Literature;71

• "Literature in Multicultural and Multilingual Sweden : The Birth and Death of the Immigrant Writer" In: Literature, Language, and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia and the Low Countries, eds. Behschnitt, Wolfgang; De Mul, Sarah; Minnaard, Liesbeth. Amsterdam: Rodopi. pp. 41–61. Textxet Studies in Comparative Literature;71

• "Swedish "immigrant literature" and the ethnic lens : the representation of cultural diversity in Jonas Hassen Khemiri's 'Ett öga rött' and Marjaneh Bakhtiari's 'Kalla det vad fan du vill'" In: candinavian Studies vol 84 No. 1 (2012), pp. 27-58

• "Swedish working-class literature and the class politics of heritage". In: Heritage labour and the working classes, (eds.) L. Smith, P. Shackel and G. Campbell. London: Routledge 2011

• "Swedish 'Immigrant Literature' and the Construction of Ethnicity." In: Tijdschrift voor Skandinavistiek vol 31 (2010)

• "Rethinking Redistribution and recognition: Class, Identity and the Conditions for Radical Politics in the 'Postsocialist' Age. In: New Proposals, vol 2 (2008), pp. 31-44.

A summary in English of the main argument in my book "Den föreställda mångkulturen: Klass och etnicitet i svensk samtidsprosa" (Imagined Cultural Diversity: Class and Ethnicity in Conteporary Swedish Prose Fiction) can be found here

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