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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. 229–252

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Space for love or arts of living on a damaged planet

Dystopia and utopia in novels by Karin Boye, Johanna Nilsson and Johanna Sinisalo

 | University of Bonn
Published online: 24 November 2022
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Article outline
  • The green depth: A space of love and resistance
  • Karin Boye’s legacy: Johanna Nilsson’s Det grönare djupet (2015)
  • Johanna Sinisalo’s Auringon ydin
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
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