Nordic War Stories

Marianne Stecher-Hansen is a Professor in the Department of Scandinavian Studies, University of Washington.

List of Illustrations

Editor’s Acknowledgements



Editor’s Introduction

Marianne Stecher-Hansen



Part I: War Historiography



Chapter 1. Finland in World War II—Tragedy, Survival, and Good Wars

Juhana H. Aunesluoma



Chapter 2. Danish Historical Narratives of the Occupation—The Promises and Lies of April 9th

Sofie Lene Bak



Chapter 3. The Norwegian War Experience—Occupied and Allied

Tom Kristiansen



Chapter 4. The Icelandic National Narrative and World War II—“Freedom and Culture”

Guðmundur Hálfdanarson



Chapter 5. Sweden’s Ambiguous War—Contradiction and Controversy

John Gilmour



Part II: War Literature – Archive



Chapter 6. Karin Boye as Ambivalent Spectator of Fascism

Amanda Doxtater



Chapter 7. Isak Dinesen in Hitler’s Berlin—Neutrality’s Cloak in “Letters from a Land at War”

Marianne Stecher-Hansen



Chapter 8. Sigrid Undset’s Problematic Propaganda – The Call for Democracy in Return to the Future

Christine Hamm



Part III: War Literature – Canon



Chapter 9. Hans Christian Branner—Angst and the Existential Crisis of War in Denmark

Mark Mussari



Chapter 10. Crises of Memory in Norway’s Occupation Novel—Sigurd Hoel’s Meeting at the Milestone

Dean Krouk



Chapter 11. The Battle over Finnish Cultural Memory of War—Väinö Linna’s The Unknown Soldier

Julia Pajunen



Chapter 12. Investigating Sweden’s Postwar Neutrality—Ethics in Per Olov Enquist’s The Legionnaires

Jan Krogh Nielsen



Chapter 13. The Allied Occupation of Iceland—Indriði G. Þorsteinsson’s North of War

Daisy Neijmann



Part IV: War Cinema – Remembering and Forgetting



Chapter 14. Somewhere in Sweden – Quality Fiction and Popularized History in the World War II Television Series

Erik Hedling



Chapter 15. Icelandic Cinema and the American Military Presence – The Girl Gogo, Atomic Station, and Devil’s Island

Pétur Valsson



Chapter 16. War Memory, Compassion, and the Finnish Child – Klaus Härö’s Mother of Mine

Liina-Ly Roos



Chapter 17. The War Film as Cultural Memory in Denmark – April 9th and Land of Mine

Marianne Stecher-Hansen



Chapter 18. Acts of Remembering – Audiovisual Memory and the New Norwegian Occupation Drama

Gunnar Iversen



Chapter 19. Finland Returning to War on Screen – The Unknown Soldier of 2017

John Sundholm



Editor’s Epilogue

Marianne Stecher-Hansen



Index