Det är alltid roligt när man får se forskning materialiseras i bokform, men just denna bokutgivning är särskilt efterlängtad. Det beror inte bara på att boken skulle vara särskilt bra, utan också på att det tagit väldigt lång tid att producera den (nästan sex år!)
Såhär har vi sammanfattat bokens innehåll:
This book offers a pioneering study of the national, transnational, and international dimensions of working-class literature. It explores both the historically and geographically varied nature of the relationship between working-class literatures and national ‘canons’, and the importance of international and transnational exchanges in the development of working-class literature. Through a series of detailed case studies (its sixteen essays analyse working-class literatures from the early nineteenth century to the present day and cover thirteen countries across three continents) this collection not only analyses the factors which lead to the incorporation or exclusion of working-class literature from a given national ‘canon’, but also traces the various ways in which working-class literatures participate in international networks of exchange. With its wide historical range, extensive geographical coverage and broad definition of working-class literature, which includes samba poetry as well as socialist realism, this collection charts new territory for the study of working-class literature.
Mitt bidrag har titeln Ordinary People and Literary Pirouettes: Working-Class Literature in the Swedish Municipal Workers' Trade-Union Magazine Until 1970. Den beskriver ganska väl vad jag skriver om: arbetarlitteraturen i Kommunalarbetaren fram till 1970.
Dessvärre är boken inte helt billig, men man kan ju alltid be sitt bibliotek skaffa den. Mer info hittar man här.
