Language prohibitions as traumatic experience in contemporary Swedish and Danish literature and film Ghent University
The research project examines the literary and cinematic representation of traumatic experiences of children belonging to a national minority in Sweden and Denmark, who were forbidden to speak in their own mother tongue long into the 1950s. With reference to recent Postcolonial Studies and Memory and Media Studies it is to be analysed how the “colonial” past in Scandinavia is remembered and discussed today and which role literature and film ...