The Gothic Topography in Scandinavian Horror Fiction

Leffler, Yvonne

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“…There is no need to avert attention from the specifically Nordic historical context to make sense of Hans' shame and guilt. As Yvonne Leffler (2009) has argued, Scandinavian horror is "frequently concerned with evoking a collective trauma bound to a common Scandinavian past" (146). To Leffler, this trauma is linked to a general fear of losing control of the natural landscape and terror at the thought that a repressed pagan past might, in Gothic fashion, reassert itself.…”

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Revenge of the Trolls

Höglund

2017

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Recent studies by Naum and Nordin, Fur, and Keskinen et al. suggest that the Nordic nations participated in the pan-European colonial project of the nineteenth century and that they also pursued an internal colonial project through the invasion of Sápmi. This realisation constitutes a vantage point from which Nordic culture can be revisited and re-examined as (post)colonial. With this in mind, the article examines how the Norwegian films Troll Hunter (2010) and Thale (2012) engage with the repressed history of Nordic colonialism. Like many other Gothic films that discuss colonial matters, they are ambivalent, concurrently supporting and disturbing the imperial notions that they bring to the surface. Particular attention is devoted to how the films situate modernity in relation to a metaphorical indigeneity that they imagine as both attractive and abject, and to how they visualize categories of gender and race in relation to this indigeneity. SAMMANFATTNINGNya studier av Naum och Nordin, Fur, och Keskinen et al. visar att de nordiska nationerna aktivt deltog i det pan-Europeiska koloniala projektet under artonhundratalet, och att de även utförde interna koloniala projekt genom invasionen och koloniseringen Sápmi. Denna insikt är en utgångpunkt för nya undersökningar av den nordiska kulturen som (post)kolonial. Med detta i åtanke studerar denna artikel hur de norska filmerna Trolljegeren (2010) och Thale (2012) tar sig an den nordiska kolonialismens undertryckta histo-

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S candinavian G othic

Leffler¹

2012

The Encyclopedia of the Gothic

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There is a Gothic tradition in Scandinavian literature, lasting from the early nineteenth century to the present day, where the stories are located in Scandinavia, and the Gothic castle or haunted house is replaced by the Nordic wilderness, the vast dark forest, the snow‐covered Nordic mountains, or the icy stormy sea. Regional folklore and local traditions are used to enhance the Gothic atmosphere, and the protagonist's dark side is often bound to and triggered by the wilderness and the pagan past of the region.

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Arctic Gothic: genre, folklore, and the cinematic horror landscape ofDead Snow(2009)

Piatti-Farnell

2019

Studies in European Cinema

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The Gothic Topography in Scandinavian Horror Fiction

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Revenge of the Trolls

Revenge of the Trolls

S candinavian G othic

Arctic Gothic: genre, folklore, and the cinematic horror landscape ofDead Snow(2009)

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