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In:Nordic Utopias and Dystopias: From Aniara to Allatta!
Edited by Pia Maria Ahlbäck, Jouni Teittinen and Maria Lassén-Seger
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 17] 2022
► pp. 153–178

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Children of the district

Pastoral and the welfare state in Monika Fagerholm’s The End of the Glitter Scene novels

 | Tampere University
Published online: 24 November 2022
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Article outline
  • An unattainable ideal: The district and the Nordic welfare state as dark pastoral milieus
  • “When the summer throws you away”: Pastoral and the otherness of children as a critique of the Western child
  • “The district hates itself”: The end of the glitter scene novels as a description of the Finland-Swedish minority’s self-conception
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
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