Johan Schimanski

Ulrike Spring, Johan Schimanski og Thea Aarbakke, red. Transforming Author Museums: From Sites of Pilgrimage to Cultural Hubs. New York: Berghahn, 2022.

Johan Schimanski og Jopi Nyman, red. Border Images, Border Narratives: The Political Aesthetics of Boundaries and Crossings. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021.

Johan Schimanski. Grenzungen: Versuche zu einer Poetik der Grenze. Overs. G. H. H. Wien: Turia + Kant, 2020. 

Knut Stene-Johansen, Christian Refsum og Johan Schimanski, red. Living Together – Roland Barthes, the Individual and the Community. Bielefeld: transcript, 2018.

Johan Schimanski og Stephen F. Wolfe, red. Border Aesthetics: Concepts and Intersections. New York: Berghahn, 2017.

Johan Schimanski og Ulrike Spring. Passagiere des Eises: Polarhelden und arktische Diskurse 1874. Wien: Böhlau, 2015.

Johan Schimanski, Cathrine Theodorsen og Henning Howlid Wærp, red. Reiser og ekspedisjoner i det litterære Arktis. Trondheim: Tapir Akademisk, 2011.

Anka Ryall, Johan Schimanski og Henning Howlid Wærp, red. Arctic Discourses. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2010.

Johan Schimanski og Stephen Wolfe, red. Border Poetics De-limited. Hannover: Wehrhahn, 2007.  

• Schimanski, Johan (2024). Space, Borders and Cognition in Urban Postmigration Literature. I Garcia, Patricia & Toivonen, Anna-Leena (Red.), Urban Mobilities in Literature and Art Activism. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9783031427978. s. 235–258. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-42798-5_11. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Borders are central to the urban postmigratory experience in divided cities. How do we use literary texts to make sense of borders, borderings and border experiences? This chapter argues that combining border poetics analysis with a cognitive approach will help us understand this question, pointing to how narratives not only describe urban borders but also act them out by using their own formal borders to involve readers. The chapter takes as its departure point a poem addressing urban spaces by Sarah Zahid, who grew up in Oslo as the child of Pakistani parents. It maps the poem onto the geographical and bordered spaces of Oslo, and these threshold spaces on to the bordered textual space of the poem, with a focus on how border crossings in the world of its speaker-protagonist and in its textual techniques involve various kinds of embodiment, movement, and cognition. It draws not only on 4E cognitive approaches (around Embodiment, Enactment, Extension, and Embeddedness) involving predictive processing, emotion, and kinesic cues, but also cognitive approaches to urban borders in recent work by James W. Scott, building on the psycho-semiotic approach of Luca Tateo and Giuseppina Marsico.

• Schimanski, Johan (2024). A Border Poetics of Migration: Five Mappings of Migration Literature in Norwegian and Swedish. I Stan, Corina & Sussman, Charlotte (Red.), The Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9783031307836. s. 77–93. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-30784-3_6. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Borders and border-crossings of different kinds are central to narratives of migration. This chapter uses examples from Norwegian and Swedish language novels and poetry to show how borders figure in migration and postmigration literature. It argues that developments in interdisciplinary border studies, border poetics, and border aesthetics provide conceptual tools for understanding borders negotiated by migrants on different spatial and symbolic planes. The texts examined can be divided into two strands, one consisting of works focusing on migration from one country to another, the other of works about postmigratory urban youth negotiating the spatial and symbolic borders of cities such as Oslo or Stockholm. The chapter concentrates in turn on each of the five border dimensions proposed in border poetics, not only the topographical and the symbolic, but also their variants the temporal, the epistemological, and the textual. It argues that textual borders are central to an understanding of how migrant and postmigrant experiences cross the epistemological borders of the public sphere. Along the way it discusses aerial borders, family stories, photographs, and multiethnic sociolects as they appear in the material. The chapter also suggests the emergence of a third strand of writing that could be labeled activist poetry. Texts discussed in more detail include novels and poetry by Maria Amelie, Athena Farrokhzad, Amal Aden, Gulraiz Sharif, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Sarah Zahid, Johannes Anyuru, Sarah Azmeh Rasmussen, and Romeo Gill.

• Schimanski, Johan (2024). Border Temporalities, Temporal Borders: Migratory Border-Crossings in Literature and Other Discourses. I Nyman, Jopi; Schimanski, Johan & Llena, Carmen Zamorano (Red.), Temporalities and Subjectivities in Migration Literature in Europe. Lexington Books. ISSN 9781666945027. s. 17–34. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Temporalities and Subjectivities in Migration Literature in Europe examines migrant stories through the lens of temporality as seen in the role of such issues as integration, waiting, detention, trauma, crisis, and imagined futures. This book argues that a focus on different time scales and perceptions of time will help us understand how the intimate and affective subjectivities of more complex narratives of migration, as articulated in literature, cross into the public sphere and challenge political 'bubbles.' This collection showcases new approaches to and innovative readings of different forms of literary and cultural migration narratives. In addition to developing theoretical tools for the study, the authors present innovative case studies addressing topics such as the European refugee crisis, migration narratives and border crossings in Britain, Spain, and Morocco, as well as experiences of migration in Finland and Norway

• Schimanski, Johan (2022). Can Migration Narratives Change Public Conceptions of Borders? The Somali-Norwegian Borderscape in Roda Ahmed’s Forberedelsen and Its Medial Reception. I Ortega, Nelson Arturo Gonzalez & García, Ana Belén Martínez (Red.), Representing 21st-Century Migration in Europe: Performing Borders, Identities and Texts. Berghahn Books. ISSN 9781800733800. s. 71–88. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This chapter aims to investigate the role of literary reception as an impact on migration literature in the Norwegian public sphere. The chapter compares how border concepts are expressed in Roda Ahmed’s novel of migration from Somalia to Norway, as compared to how they appear in the media commentary of the book in the form of literary reviews. It also analyses the book’s cover or paratexts as placed on the border between the novel and its reception. From four core sets of concepts required by editors, the author deals mainly with “performative acts”, “metaphor / metonymy” and “border aesthetics”.

• Spring, Ulrike; Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Aarbakke, Thea (2022). Introduction: The Expanded Spaces and Changing Contexts of Author Museums. I Spring, Ulrike; Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Aarbakke, Thea (Red.), Transforming author museums From Sites of Pilgrimage to Cultural Hubs. Berghahn Books. ISSN 9781800732438. s. 1–32. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Spring, Ulrike; Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Aarbakke, Thea (2022). Author Museums and Democratization. I Spring, Ulrike; Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Aarbakke, Thea (Red.), Transforming author museums From Sites of Pilgrimage to Cultural Hubs. Berghahn Books. ISSN 9781800732438. s. 320–326. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2022). Ghostly Voices in the Author Museum. I Spring, Ulrike; Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Aarbakke, Thea (Red.), Transforming author museums From Sites of Pilgrimage to Cultural Hubs. Berghahn Books. ISSN 9781800732438. s. 105–135. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Nyman, Jopi (2021). Border Images and Narratives: Paradoxes, Spheres, Aesthetics. I Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Nyman, Jopi (Red.), Border Images, Border Narratives: The Political Aesthetics of Boundaries and Crossings. Manchester University Press. ISSN 9781526146267. s. 242–251. doi: 10.7765/9781526146274.00021. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This chapter written by the editors examines how the individual contributions to this volume answer the book’s three basic questions about different aesthetic strategies, how they enable crossings from private experience into the public sphere, and the various paradoxes they involve. The ways in which they answer these questions connect the different chapters with each other. Here the editors also suggest possible ways forward for future research, or themes that need a closer focus. It is argued that, in addition to the need to broaden the focus to other forms of aesthetic experience than those prototypically characterised as ‘images’ and ‘narratives’, it is crucial to examine in more detail how border images and narratives act in the world, focus on the temporalities of such images and narratives, and also explore their emotional dimensions.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Nyman, Jopi (2021). Images and Narratives on the Border. I Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Nyman, Jopi (Red.), Border Images, Border Narratives: The Political Aesthetics of Boundaries and Crossings. Manchester University Press. ISSN 9781526146267. s. 1–20. doi: 10.7765/9781526146274.0000. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This introduction addresses the role of the aesthetic forms such as narratives and images for politics of the border on the basis of the work of the philosopher Jacques Rancière. It also suggests that stories of the border are means for negotiating identity in the borderscape, the site where border-crossings and bordering processes take place, generating new belongings and becomings, as the border theorist Chiara Brambilla argues. Providing a shared basis for the interdisciplinary volume, the introduction asks three key questions that concern (1) the role of the form, medium, aesthetical strategies in (trans)forming the borderscape, (2) their entry into the public sphere and diverse functions in border discourses and (3) their role in making visible and giving voice to diverse experiences of the borderscape, including those of migrants and other minorities. The introduction also reviews the case studies collected in the volume.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2021). Seasons of Migration to the North: Borders and Images in Migration Narratives Published in Norwegian. I Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Nyman, Jopi (Red.), Border Images, Border Narratives: The Political Aesthetics of Boundaries and Crossings. Manchester University Press. ISSN 9781526146267. s. 206–224. doi: 10.7765/9781526146274.00019. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This chapter brings together the concerns of border aesthetics and ‘post-national’ imagology. Setting out to map images of Northernness in contemporary migrant literature that features viewpoints originating from the global ‘South’, it discusses the border processes implied by stereotypical images of the other and of the self. It addresses a number of fictional or autobiographical public narratives written in Norwegian by migrants arriving in Norway as children or young adults, including testimonial narratives by the child refugee Amal Aden and ‘illegal’ migrant Maria Amelie, along with semi-autobiographical novels by Romeo Gill and Sara Azmeh Rasmussen. Migrant narratives negotiate discourses of arcticity, winterliness, nordicity etc., known from imagological research on Northernness. The chapter asks to what degree various topoi of Northernness contribute to the bordering processes in the texts, or whether these narratives produce new images of Northernness and new vocabularies for addressing the border-crossing. The narratives deploy chiastic switchings between North and South, circling disorientations, entropic white-outs and liberating and destructive verticalities in order to figure the border in new ways at different points of their physical and symbolic journeys. The ambivalence of these images shows that they are related not merely to borders but also to the epistemological borders negotiated.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2021). Border Utopias, Border Dystopias. I Faber, Vera & Seidl, Barbara (Red.), Grenzüberschreitungen und Grenzüberschreibungen in Theorie, Literatur und Kultur. Praesens Verlag. ISSN 9783706911207. s. 45–78. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Utopias have usually been imagined as being separated in time and space from our contemporary societies. But if utopias seem to require borders conceived of as divides, what would be the utopian concept of a border be? Why has migration figured so little in previous utopias, and what would a utopian form of migration be like? Borders in the world today are ethically and socially dysfunctional, crying out for new solutions. This chapter weaves theories of utopia, nations, borders, migration and science fiction into readings of fiction and poetry by Roda Ahmed, Ingeborg Bachmann, Ursula K. Le Guin and Mohsin Hamid. It argues that border utopias are necessary if we are to understand the epistemological limitations underlying current border practices and the possibility of new border imaginings.

• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2020). Hva kommuniseres i forfattermuseer? Nordisk Museologi. ISSN 1103-8152. 28(1), s. 23–41. doi: 10.5617/nm.7965. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Writers’ museums often privilege the biographical person of the author rather than their literary works. Here we present a model which can be used not only as a method of analysis, but also as as an inspiration that can help create productive tensions in the exhibition of biography and works in author museums. Our departure point is that the writer’s museum is a double act of communication, or more precisely a museal act of communication about a literary act of communication. Using Roman Jakobson’s model of the communicative act, we show how museums make visible or hide different parts of the communications network, as well as what complicates this network. We use examples from the Strindberg Museum in Stockholm throughout to make an abstract argument more concrete, referring to other museums and exhibitions to provide breadth where solutions and traditions are concerned.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2020). Playing the Arctic: Arthur Ransome’s Winter Holiday. I Hansson, Heidi; Leavenworth, Maria Lindgren & Ryall, Anka (Red.), The Arctic in Literature for Children and Young Adults. Routledge. ISSN 9780367360801. s. 189–202. doi: 10.4324/9780429343704. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Inspired by Nansen’s accounts of Arctic journeys, the child protagonists of Arthur Ransome’s Winter Holiday (1933) transform the English lake on which they spend their holidays into the scene of an Arctic expedition. This chapter examines how Winter Holiday uses Arctic discourse to articulate shifts in imperialism and gender roles leading up to inter-war modernity. The novel’s disjunctive mappings of the Lake District onto spaces of exploration, along with the fantasy play within the fiction, produce an ambivalence about imperialism; its adventures and entropic images of the fluidity of the ice and the blizzard create a modernist Arctic.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Spring, Ulrike (2020). The Arctic, Germany and Austria-Hungary: Narrative Borders in Discourses around the Austro-Hungarian Polar Expedition (1872–1874), German Representations of the Far North (17th-19th Centuries): Writing the Arctic. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISSN 9781527560222. s. 246–267. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2019). Migratory Angels: The Political Aesthetics of Border Trauma. I Horsti, Karina (Red.), The Politics of Public Memories of Forced Migration and Bordering in Europe. Palgrave Pivot. ISSN 9783030305642. s. 37–52. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-30565-9_3. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Post-traumatic conditions are the result of wounds crossing bodily or psychic borders. At the same time, crossing territorial borders can cause traumas. How do migration narratives figure the traumatic effects of border-crossings? To answer this question, I apply a border aesthetics approach, arguing that the borderings of what may be sensed (cf. Jacques Rancière’s concept of the partage de sensible, the “distribution of the sensible”) in the borderscapes of migration narratives are often regulated by the epistemological borderings that take place in the fixations, substitutions and blind spots of trauma. I suggest that migration literature can combine different styles of presentation—for example, images and narrative—in order to create new forms of political aesthetics and counteract the desensitizing logic of media spectacle.

• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2019). The Melting Archive: The Arctic and the Archive’s Others. I Frank, Susi K. & Jakobsen, Kjetil Ansgar (Red.), Arctic Archives: Ice, Memory and Entropy. Transcript Verlag. ISSN 9783837646566. s. 49–68. doi: 10.14361/9783839446560-005. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This volume explores the Arctic as an important and highly endangered archive of knowledge about natural as well as human history of the Anthropocene. Focusing on the Arctic as an archive means not only to investigate it as a place of human history and memory―of Arctic exploring, conquering, and colonizing―but to take into account also the specific environmental conditions of the circumpolar region: ice and permafrost. These have allowed a huge natural archive to emerge, offering rich sources for natural scientists and historians alike. Examining the debate on the notion of (“natural”) archive, the cultural semantics and historicity of the meaning of concepts like “warm,” “cold,” “freezing,” and “melting,” as well as various works of literature, art, and science on Arctic topics, this volume brings together literary scholars, historians of knowledge and philosophy, art historians, media theorists, and archivologists. Contributions relate the ice of the Arctic to other memory media in nature and culture, like snow and ice, earth and stone, but also film, photography and text; in the context of the melting archives of the Arctic. What kind of memory supports do these different media supply? What kind of events are preserved in ice, for example compared to earth, and what is discarded, and what information is provided when entropy rises?

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2018). Reading the Future North. I Larsen, Janike Kampevold & Hemmersam, Peter (Red.), Future North : The Changing Arctic Landscapes. Routledge. ISSN 9781472481252. s. 16–25. doi: 10.4324/9781315583716-2. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The changing Arctic is of broad political concern and is being studied across many fields. This book investigates ongoing changes in the Arctic from a landscape perspective. It examines settlements and territories of the Barents Sea Coast, Northern Norway, the Russian Kola Peninsula, Svalbard and Greenland from an interdisciplinary, design-based and future-oriented perspective. The Future North project has travelled Arctic regions since 2012, mapped landscapes and settlements, documented stories and practices, and discussed possible futures with local actors. Reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of the project, the authors in this book look at political and economic strategies, urban development, land use strategies and local initiatives in specific locations that are subject to different forces of change. This book explores current material conditions in the Arctic as effects of industrial and political agency and social initiatives. It provides a combined view on the built environment and urbanism, as well as the cultural and material landscapes of the Arctic. The chapters move beyond single-disciplinary perspectives on the Arctic, and engage with futures, cultural landscapes and communities in ways that build on both architectural and ethnographic participatory methods.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2018). Glass Borders. antiAtlas Journal. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The deportation of unregistered migrant Maria Amelie after the publication of her book Ulovlig norsk (2010) was a major media event in Norway. In her following book, Takk (2014), she constantly refers to windows, mirrors and camera lenses. Glass becomes a symbol of traumatic experience and configures the in/visibility of the deportation borderscape, creating a political aesthetics of the border.

• Refsum, Christian; Stene-Johansen, Knut & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2018). Introduction. I Stene-Johansen, Knut; Refsum, Christian & Schimanski, Johan (Red.), Living Together – Roland Barthes, the Individual and the Community. Transcript Verlag. ISSN 9783837644319. s. 9–20. doi: 10.14361/9783839444313-001. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2018). XÉNITEIA/Xeniteia. I Stene-Johansen, Knut; Refsum, Christian & Schimanski, Johan (Red.), Living Together – Roland Barthes, the Individual and the Community. Transcript Verlag. ISSN 9783837644319. s. 313–322. doi: 10.14361/9783839444313-032. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Translation of Xéniteia/Utlendighet. Hvordan leve sammen: Roland Barthes, individet og fellesskapet. Ed. Christian Refsum, Johan Schimanski & Knut Stene-Johanssen. Oslo: Spartacus, 2016.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Wolfe, Stephen (2017). Intersections: A Conclusion in the Form of a Glossary. I Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Wolfe, Stephen (Red.), Border Aesthetics: Concepts and Intersections. Berghahn Books. ISSN 9781785334641. s. 155–177. doi: 10.2307/j.ctvw048vh.12. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In this book we have let six key words – Ecology, Imaginary, Invisibility, Palimpsest, Sovereignty and Waiting – steer parallel but interconnected paths through the field of border aesthetics. The time has come to pull some of the arguments proposed in the introduction together, sum up our conclusions, and make the links between chapters more visible. Embedded in each chapter are many different terms relevant to chapter themes, and a number of these terms appear in more than one of the chapters. By treating this theoretical lexicon as a network of relations between the chapters, we hope to present a snapshot of our thinking here about border aesthetics, at this point of time in the academic debate. Any such state can only be a momentary and incomplete crystallization of a field, pointing as it does towards future and often unknown potentials for research. So while in the following we provide some hopefully useful definitions of the terms which make up the nodal points, definitions which may seem to claim to be definitive, we are very aware that we do this in order to provide a practical basis for debate and criticism, and that given the historical nature of borders and the other phenomena we are examining here, our definitions must be taken as contingent. [...] This is a submitted version of a chapter published in the book Border Aesthetics: Concepts and Intersections, eds. Johan Schimanski and Stephen F. Wolfe. © 2017 Berghahn Books

• Görling, Reinhold & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2017). Sovereignty. I Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Wolfe, Stephen (Red.), Border Aesthetics: Concepts and Intersections. Berghahn Books. ISSN 9781785334641. s. 111–128. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Few concepts are as central to understanding the modern world as borders, and the now-thriving field of border studies has already produced a substantial literature analyzing their legal, ideological, geographical, and historical aspects. Such studies have hardly exhausted the subject’s conceptual fertility, however, as this pioneering collection on the aesthetics of borders demonstrates. Organized around six key ideas—ecology, imaginary, in/visibility, palimpsest, sovereignty and waiting—the interlocking essays collected here provide theoretical starting points for an aesthetic understanding of borders, developed in detail through interdisciplinary analyses of literature, audio-visual borderscapes, historical and contemporary ecologies, political culture, and migration.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2017). Reading from the Border. I Lothe, Jakob (Red.), The Future of Literary Studies. Novus Forlag. ISSN 9788270999002. s. 61–71. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The discipline of literary studies has a long tradition of borrowing the concepts and methods of related disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences, while also itself exerting a significant influence on other disciplines. In this book, 15 literary scholars hailing from five different countries consider these processes of mutual enrichment from various critical perspectives. What is the current state of literary studies, and what does the future of this many-faceted field look like? How can the approach of, or trend within, literary studies that each of these scholars represents contribute to literary studies in general? The chapters of the book are revised versions of papers given in June 2016 at a conference entitled “The Future of Literary Studies” at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo. Demonstrating that literary studies constitutes a remarkably active and strikingly diverse area of study and research, the chapters confirm that the field of literary studies is dynamic and open-minded, receiving impulses from other disciplines yet conscious of the characteristics, demands and possibilities appropriate to a discipline in its own right. The book has an introduction by the editor and an afterword by Frederik Tygstrup, University of Copenhagen.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2016). XÉNITEIA/Utlendighet. I Stene-Johansen, Knut; Refsum, Christian & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (Red.), Å leve sammen. Roland Barthes, individet og fellesskapet. Spartacus. ISSN 9788230401781. s. 402–416. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2016). Seeing Disorientation: China Miéville’s The City & the City. Culture, Theory and Critique. ISSN 1473-5784. 57(1), s. 106–120. doi: 10.1080/14735784.2015.1122543. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Orientations revealed as false presumably lead to the need for reorientation. Outside this economy, can there be utopian unorientation or ambiguous post-orientation? The self comes into being in a moment of disorientation, as Althusser's famous scene of being hailed by a policeman on the street makes clear. Althusser represses this moment, but what if we allow for its accompanying self-reflexivity? The fictional cities of China Miéville's The City & the City (2009) are set in a fragmented and multi-layered space characterised by displacement and disorientation. This theoretically informed police procedural emphasises disorientation through the form of the detective story and plays with genre orientations through its fantastic/science fictional elements. Most strikingly, it reifies our everyday practices of ignoring certain things around us, using a science fictional novum: the institutionalised practice of ‘unseeing’. The novel suggests that the seeing that paradoxically lurks behind unseeing creates disorientation, giving momentary glimpses of ambiguous post-orientations.

• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2015). The Useless Arctic: Exploiting Nature in the Arctic in the 1870s. Nordlit. ISSN 0809-1668. s. 13–27. doi: 10.7557/13.3423. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  What is the discursive genealogy of an ecological approach to the Arctic? Building on distinctions suggested by Francis Spufford and Gísli Pálsson, this article examines a specific juncture in the history of European–Arctic interaction – the reception of the Austro-Hungarian Arctic Expedition in 1874 – and traces the potential for ecological and relational understandings in what seems to be an orientalist and exploitative material. Examining the medial reception in Austria and in Norway, along with certain key texts in which Arctic wildlife is described, we find that the Norwegian reception of the expedition emphasizes practical issues connected with resource exploitation in the Arctic, while the Austrian reception mostly sees the Arctic as a symbolic resource with which to negotiate issues of identity and modernity. The Austrian discourse revolves around a set of paradoxical contradictions, the most central being those between materialism and idealism and emptiness and fullness; we argue it is the instability of such ambiguities which produces the possibility of a future ecological discourse.

• Schimanski, Johan (2015). Border Aesthetics and Cultural Distancing in the Norwegian-Russian Borderscape. Geopolitics. ISSN 1465-0045. 20(1), s. 35–55. doi: 10.1080/14650045.2014.884562. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The borderscape is a flexible entity that goes beyond the space of the border and the borderland. This article argues that art and literature can be constitutive elements in the borderscape, along with other kinds of bordering and demarcation. Art and literature can help create resistance through performative acts of “borderscaping”, taking place in different locations and involving different perspectives. The article uses definitions of the aesthetic to trace forms of “distance” or “distancing” as they appear in conceptualizations of the borderscape, through the aesthetic categories of the sublime, the postmodern and the defamiliarized. Artistic practices in the Norwegian-Russian borderscape are examined in an evaluation of their geopolitical significance, with particular attention given to descriptions of the Norwegian-Russian border in novels by John Fowles and Kjartan Fløgstad.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2015). Reading Borders and Reading as Crossing Borders. I Brandell, Inga; Carlsson, Marie & Cetrez, Önver (Red.), Borders and the Changing Boundaries of Knowledge. Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul. ISSN 9789197881333. s. 91–107. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Borders are traces, that is to say, they are a form of writing – and thus they are also texts to be read. We often think of that which is on the other side of the border as something unknown, and the border itself also in some sense unknowable, inviting interpretation. I will here be examining some literary and cinematic narratives in which national borders are crossed for elements of an epistemology of the border. Such narratives often transform crossings into readings, suggesting that these crossings are allegories of the reading of the narrative itself – the reader crossing over into the text. If border crossings are movements of bodies in space, what do these narratives tell us of the relationship between the reader’s body and the space of the text? What can these narratives tell us about the figurality of community and identity? Can national affiliation be seen as an act of reading borders? I suggest that narratives of border crossing, like border crossings themselves, are structured around a double vector, sometimes transformed into a swirling confusion of directions, constituting the border zone and its associated identities.

• Schimanski, Johan (2013). Pronouncing it the Porder: Ascribing Aesthetic Values to External and Internal National Borders in Frank A. Jenssen’s The Salt Bin. I Viljoen, Hein (Red.), Crossing Borders, Dissolving Boundaries. Brill | Rodopi. ISSN 9789042036383. s. 181–198. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Borders separate but also connect self and other, and literary texts not only enact these bordering processes, but form part of such processes. This book gestures towards a borderless world, stepping, as it were, with thousand-mile boots from south to north (even across the Atlantic), from South Africa to Scandinavia. It also shows how literary texts model and remodel borders and bordering processes in rich and meaningful local contexts. The essays assembled here analyse the crossing and negotiation of borders and boundaries in works by Nadine Gordimer, Ingrid Winterbach, Deneys Reitz, Janet Suzman, Marlene van Niekerk, A.S. Byatt, Thomas Harris, Frank A. Jenssen, Eben Venter, Antjie Krog, and others under different signs or conceptual points of attraction. These signs include a spiritual turn, eventfulness, self-understanding, ethnic and linguistic mobilization, performative chronotopes, the grotesque, the carceral, the rhetorical, and the interstitial. Contributors: Ileana Dimitriu, Heilna du Plooy, John Gouws, Anne Heith, Lida Krüger, Susan Meyer, Adéle Nel, Ellen Rees, Johan Schimanski, Tony Ullyatt, Phil van Schalkwyk, Hein Viljoen.

• Schimanski, Johan (2013). Tilbake til grenserommet. I Widerøe, Lars Ivar & Hambro, Cathinka (Red.), Lochlann. Festskrift til Jan Erik Rekdal på 60-årsdagen. Aistí in ómós do Jan Erik Rekdal ar a 60ú lá breithe. Hermes Academic Publishing and Bookshop A/S. ISSN 9788280342027. s. 165–177. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Wolfe, Stephen (2013). The Aesthetics of Borders. I Aukrust, Kjerstin (Red.), Assigning Cultural Values. Peter Lang Publishing Group. ISSN 9783631632987. s. 235–250. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan; Theodorsen, Cathrine & Wærp, Henning Howlid (2011). Arktis som litterært prosjekt. I Schimanski, Johan; Theodorsen, Cathrine & Wærp, Henning Howlid (Red.), Reiser og ekspedisjoner i det litterære Arktis. Tapir Akademisk Forlag. ISSN 9788251927819. s. 9–28. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  I denne antologien undersøker forfatterne hvordan ulike forestillinger om Arktis og det nordlige har oppstått, og hvordan de formidles i reiselitteratur og ekspedisjonsrapporter, i film og skjønnlitteratur, i aviser og vitenskapelige tekster i tiden fra romantikken og fram til vår tid. Samlet utgjør disse forestillingene en arktisk diskurs preget av motsetninger – mellom lys og mørke, mellom det rene og sunne og det farlige og demoniske. Språkbruken formes og utvikles i skjæringspunktet mellom faktiske erfaringer og ulike konvensjoner.

• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2011). Oppdagelsesreise blir til litteratur: Skrivestrategier i mottakelsen av den østerriksk-ungarske nordpolsekspedisjonen (1872-1874). I Schimanski, Johan; Theodorsen, Cathrine & Wærp, Henning Howlid (Red.), Reiser og ekspedisjoner i det litterære Arktis. Tapir Akademisk Forlag. ISSN 9788251927819. s. 57–90. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  I denne antologien undersøker forfatterne hvordan ulike forestillinger om Arktis og det nordlige har oppstått, og hvordan de formidles i reiselitteratur og ekspedisjonsrapporter, i film og skjønnlitteratur, i aviser og vitenskapelige tekster i tiden fra romantikken og fram til vår tid. Samlet utgjør disse forestillingene en arktisk diskurs preget av motsetninger – mellom lys og mørke, mellom det rene og sunne og det farlige og demoniske. Språkbruken formes og utvikles i skjæringspunktet mellom faktiske erfaringer og ulike konvensjoner.

• Schimanski, Johan (2010). Reading Gender in Border-Crossing Narratives. I Aaron, Jane; Altink, Henrice & Weedon, Chris (Red.), Gendering Border Studies. University of Wales Press. ISSN 9780708321706. s. 105–126. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Lang, Birgit (2010). Das Subjekt am Grenzübergang: Terézia Moras „STILLE. mich. NACHT“ und Yoko Tawadas „Das Leipzig des Lichts und der Gelatine“. Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie. ISSN 0044-2496. 129(Sonderheft), s. 161–179. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Der Artikel untersucht, welche Rolle historisch spezifische Grenzkonzepte am Grenzübergang spielen und wieweit sie nicht nur die Repräsentation der Grenzstation, sondern auch jene der Grenzgänger und deren körperliche Grenzen beeinflussen. Die Erzählungen „STILLE. mich. NACHT“ von Terézia Mora und „Das Leipzig des Lichts und der Gelatine“ von Yoko Tawada thematisieren beide die Öffnung des Eisernen Vorhangs im Jahr 1989. Diese Geschichten von in Deutschland lebenden Autorinnen, die ursprünglich aus Ungarn bzw. Japan stammen, werden im Kanon der ‚Literatur nach der Wende‘ normalerweise nicht berücksichtigt. Beide Texte sind durch eine spezifisch unfeste Beziehung zu historischen Ereignissen gekennzeichnet, welche die Grenze selbst beständig relativiert und die Grenzstation zum Grenzgebiet werden lässt. Der Umgang der unterschiedlichen homodiegetischen Erzähler mit der Grenze ist grundverschieden: Mora lässt einen männlichen Grenzwächter auf der ungarisch-österreichischen Grenze erzählen, Tawada eine Grenzgängerin auf ihrem Weg nach Leipzig; ihre Reise beginnt am Zollamt in Berlin. Diese Differenz lässt sich – in Kombination mit den unterschiedlichen Schreibweisen der Autorinnen, die mit den Schlagworten modernistisch-symbolistisch und surrealistisch beschrieben werden können – auf unterschiedliche geschlechtsspezifische Subjektpositionen zurückführen, die den Erzähler zum Gefangenen der Grenze werden lassen, während die Erzählerin der eigenen Entsubjektivierung kreative Produktivität abgewinnen kann. In einem letzten Schritt zeigt der Artikel, wie die den beiden Erzählungen zugrunde liegenden Grenzkonzepte nicht nur die Darstellung von Grenzstation, nationaler Identität, Subjektivität und Körperlichkeit, sondern auch das Schreiben selbst beeinflussen.

• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2010). A Black Rectangle Labelled “Polar Night”: Imagining the Arctic after the Austro-Hungarian Expedition of 1872-1874. I Ryall, Anka; Schimanski, Johan & Wærp, Henning Howlid (Red.), Arctic Discourses. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISSN 9781443819596. s. 19–42. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Both fictional and non-fictional accounts of the Arctic have long been a major source of powerful images of the region, and have thus had a crucial part to play in the history of human activities there. This volume provides a wide-reaching investigation into the discourses involved in such accounts, above all into the consolidation of a discourse of “Arcticism” (modelled on Edward Said’s concept of “Orientalism”), but also into the many intersecting discourses of imperialism, nationalism, masculinity, modernity, geography, science, race, ecology, indigeneity, aesthetics, etc. Perspectives originating from inside and outside the Arctic, along with hybrid positions, are examined, with special attention being given to the textual genres, narratives and figures which they mobilize, together with to the close relationship between the Arctic as an unknown place and the literary imagination. The different chapters address a wide geographical range of texts, providing a necessary supplement to most previous work in the field, and also address the wide variety of genres which flourish under the aegis of Arctic discourse, ranging from exploration accounts, travel-writing, political texts and journalism through diaries and historical documents to novels and novelizations, and including also other media, such as music and opera.

• Ryall, Anka; Schimanski, Johan & Wærp, Henning Howlid (2010). Arctic Discourses: An Introduction. I Ryall, Anka; Schimanski, Johan & Wærp, Henning Howlid (Red.), Arctic Discourses. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISSN 9781443819596. s. ix–xxviii. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Both fictional and non-fictional accounts of the Arctic have long been a major source of powerful images of the region, and have thus had a crucial part to play in the history of human activities there. This volume provides a wide-reaching investigation into the discourses involved in such accounts, above all into the consolidation of a discourse of “Arcticism” (modelled on Edward Said’s concept of “Orientalism”), but also into the many intersecting discourses of imperialism, nationalism, masculinity, modernity, geography, science, race, ecology, indigeneity, aesthetics, etc. Perspectives originating from inside and outside the Arctic, along with hybrid positions, are examined, with special attention being given to the textual genres, narratives and figures which they mobilize, together with to the close relationship between the Arctic as an unknown place and the literary imagination. The different chapters address a wide geographical range of texts, providing a necessary supplement to most previous work in the field, and also address the wide variety of genres which flourish under the aegis of Arctic discourse, ranging from exploration accounts, travel-writing, political texts and journalism through diaries and historical documents to novels and novelizations, and including also other media, such as music and opera.

• Schimanski, Johan & Wolfe, Stephen (2010). Cultural Production and Negotiation of Borders: Introduction to the Dossier. Journal of Borderlands Studies. ISSN 0886-5655. 25(1), s. 39–49. doi: 10.1080/08865655.2010.9695749. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2009). Explorers' Bodies in Arctic Mediascapes: Celebrating the Return of the Austro-Hungarian Polar Expedition in 1874. Acta Borealia. ISSN 0800-3831. 26(1), s. 50–76. doi: 10.1080/08003830902951532. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This article investigates the welcoming receptions held on the return of the Austro-Hungarian Polar Expedition (1872-1874) as part of a Scandinavian and Central European discourse of the Arctic and of Arctic exploration. Also called the Payer-Weyprecht or Tegetthoff Expedition, it was subjected to a long series of such public celebrations on its way home to Austria-Hungary via Norway, Sweden and Germany. While our access to these celebrations is through written sources such as newspaper reports, the celebrations themselves are here seen as constituting a discourse primarily made up of performative and material elements. This discourse is formed by values such as heroism, national identities, local identities, class and gender, and is regulated by the mediascape of the time, which gives a central role to the explorers' bodies. The article focuses on welcoming receptions in Bergen and in Vienna. Differences between dominant topoi such as those of science and gendered attraction in Bergen and those of spectacular simulacra and exhaustion in Vienna can be ascribed to a combination of factors, but especially to the differences in the development of mass culture in the two contexts.

• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2009). Polarwissenschaft und Kolonialismus in Österreich-Ungarn: Zur Rezeption der österreichisch-ungarischen Polarexpedition (1872-1874). Wiener Zeitschrift zur Geschichte der Neuzeit. ISSN 1681-7001. 9(2), s. 53–71. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2009). Border Order, Border Muddles, Split Little Peas. Orbis Litterarum. ISSN 0105-7510. 64(4), s. 339–348. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2008). Grensen - litterært faktum med romlig form. I Zilliacus, Clas; Grönstad, Heidi & Gustafsson, Ulrika (Red.), Gränser i nordisk litteratur / Borders in Nordic Literature. Pedagogiska fakulteten. ISSN 9789517654180. s. 19–37. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2007). The Arctic as Part of Central European Culture. Polar Research in Tromsø. s. 13–14. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Wolfe, Stephen (2007). Entry Points: An Introduction. I Schimanski, Johan & Wolfe, Stephen (Red.), Border Poetics De-limited. Wehrhahn Verlag. ISSN 9783865250339. s. 9–26. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Wolfe, Stephen (2007). Imperial Tides: A Border Poetic Reading of Heart of Darkness. I Schimanski, Johan & Wolfe, Stephen (Red.), Border Poetics De-limited. Wehrhahn Verlag. ISSN 9783865250339. s. 217–234. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2007). Mottakelse/Mottakelse: Tilbakekomstene til den østerrikske-ungarske nordpolekspedisjonen, 1872-1874. Nordlit. ISSN 0809-1668. s. 143–166. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2007). The Postcolonial Border: Bessie Head’s “The Wind and a Boy”. I Rønning, Anne Holden & Johannessen, Lene (Red.), Readings of the Particular: The Postcolonial in the Postnational. Brill | Rodopi. ISSN 9789042021631. s. 71–91. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2006). Hamsuns koloniale nonsens. I Arntzen, Even & Wærp, Henning Howlid (Red.), Tid og rom i Hamsuns prosa (II). Hamsun-selskapet. ISSN 9788291002385. s. 81–116. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2006). Drums of the Babongo and the Ironies of Celtic Postcolonialism. I Armstrong, Charlie I. & Hestetun, Øyunn (Red.), Postcolonial Dislocations: Travel, History, and the Ironies of Narrative. Novus Forlag. ISSN 9788270994304. s. 201–214. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2006). Crossing and Reading: Notes towards a Theory and a Method. Nordlit. ISSN 0809-1668. s. 41–63. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2003). Genre Borders in a Border Novel - Nadine Gordimer's My Son's Story. I Agrell, Beata & Nilsson, Ingela (Red.), Genrer och genreproblem: teoretiska och historiska perspektiv / Genres and Their Problems: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives. Daidalos. ISSN 9789171731852. s. 505–513. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2003). Austro-Hungarian and other Mountains in Polar Discourse. TRANS Internet-Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften. 15(10). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2002). En vending på elva Dyfi. I Janss, Christian; Langeland, Henrik Helliesen; Larsen, Janike Kampevold; Løvlie, Elisabeth Marie; Refsum, Christian Thorleif & Wulfsberg, Marius (Red.), Hilsen. En bok til Arne Melberg i anledning 60-årsdagen. Gyldendal Akademisk. ISSN 9788205313163. s. 273–297. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2001). Ibsen lægger Haanden paa Brystet. Edda. Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning. ISSN 0013-0818. s. 450–455. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  omtale av Gudleiv Bø, “Nationale subjekter”: Ideer om nasjonalitet i Henrik Ibsens romantiske forfatterskap (Oslo: Novus forlag, 2000)

• Schimanski, Johan (2001). Identitetens grenser: Om nasjonal identitet i litteraturen. Nordlit. ISSN 0809-1668. s. 58–78. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2001). Jean Genet og den europeiske grensen. I Reinton, Ragnhild E. & Iversen, Irene (Red.), Litteratur og erfaring. Spartacus. ISSN 9788243001695. s. 149–166. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2001). The Deperiodicized Patient: Ondaatje and the Contemporary. I Lothe, Jakob; Rønning, Anne Holden & Young, Robert (Red.), Identities and Masks: Colonial and Postcolonial Studies. Cappelen Damm Høyskoleforlaget. ISSN 9788276342949. s. 125–141. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2001). Den litterære grensen: Knut Hamsuns “Dronningen af Saba”. I Ramírez, José L. (Red.), Att forska om gränser. Nordregio. ISSN 9789189332157. s. 141–170. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2000). Den halverende horisonten: Postkolonialisme utfra Ingeborg Bachmann og Derek Walcott. Vagant. ISSN 0802-0736. s. 49–59. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2000). Singing ‘Che Gelida Manina’ in Welsh: Internal and External Cultural Translation in the Future Wales of Islwyn Ffowc Elis. Interlitteraria. ISSN 1406-0701. s. 365–374. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (1999). Crying Like Throwing Up: Abjection and Resistance in Caradog Prichard’s Un Nos Ola Leuad. I Nyman, Jopi & Stotesbury, John A. (Red.), Postcolonialism and Cultural Resistance. Joenssun ylipiston humanistinen tiedekunta / Faculty of Humanities, University of Joensuu. ISSN 9789517087780. s. 205–214. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (1996). Cultural and Political Nationalism in Wales. I Sørensen, Øystein (Red.), Nationalism in Small European Nations. The Research Council of Norway. ISSN 9788212006423. s. 89–99. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (1995). Subaltern Science Fiction: A Short Walk in Samuel R. Delany’s Garden of Semiotics. I Flaton, Johan-Martijn & Toorn, Kees van (Red.), Intersection [Souvenir Book]. Intersection World Science Fiction Convention 1995. s. 19–22. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (1995). The Future on Repeat. SKRIFT. ISSN 0806-9298. s. 40–48. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  trans. as “Wythnos yng Nghymru Fydd - unwaith eto”, Taliesin 88 (1995): 24-30

• Schimanski, Johan (1995). Arnold Böcklin døde i Italia. SKRIFT. ISSN 0806-9298. s. 98–121. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (1994). ‘Y Fugeilgerdd Delynegol’: Genre Naturiol? gan gynnwys cyflwyniad i ddadl rhwng Genette a Derrida. Y Traethodydd. ISSN 0969-8930. 149(630), s. 38–49. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Oversettelse av “The ‘Lyric Pastoral’: A Natural Genre? (With an Introduction to a Debate between Genette and Derrida)”, Skrift: Skriftserie for litteraturvitenskap ved Universitetet i Oslo.9 (1993): 74-84. Overs. Simon Brooks

• Schimanski, Johan (1993). Genre a chenedl. Tu Chwith. ISSN 1350-4053. s. 39–42. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (1993). The ‘Lyric Pastoral’: A Natural Genre? (With an Introduction to a Debate between Genette and Derrida). SKRIFT. ISSN 0806-9298. s. 74–84. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Transl. as “‘Y Fugeilgerdd Delynegol’: Genre Naturiol? gan gynnwys cyflwyniad i ddadl rhwng Genette a Derrida”, trans. Simon Brooks, Y Traethodydd CXLIX.630 (1994): 38-49

• Schimanski, Johan (1993). Om Macphersons Ossian-syklus. SKRIFT. ISSN 0806-9298. s. 58–71. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (1991). Blokkering og oppløsning: «Fantasy» og «science fiction» i fantasiens tiår. Norsk litterær årbok (NLÅ). ISSN 0078-1266. s. 211–222. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Nyman, Jopi; Schimanski, Johan & Llena, Carmen Zamorano (2024). Temporalities and Subjectivities in Migration Literature in Europe. Lexington Books. ISBN 9781666945027. 179 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Temporalities and Subjectivities in Migration Literature in Europe examines migrant stories through the lens of temporality as seen in the role of such issues as integration, waiting, detention, trauma, crisis, and imagined futures. This book argues that a focus on different time scales and perceptions of time will help us understand how the intimate and affective subjectivities of more complex narratives of migration, as articulated in literature, cross into the public sphere and challenge political 'bubbles.' This collection showcases new approaches to and innovative readings of different forms of literary and cultural migration narratives. In addition to developing theoretical tools for the study, the authors present innovative case studies addressing topics such as the European refugee crisis, migration narratives and border crossings in Britain, Spain, and Morocco, as well as experiences of migration in Finland and Norway

• Spring, Ulrike; Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Aarbakke, Thea (2022). Transforming author museums From Sites of Pilgrimage to Cultural Hubs. Berghahn Books. ISBN 9781800732438. 338 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Nyman, Jopi (2021). Border Images, Border Narratives: The Political Aesthetics of Boundaries and Crossings. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526146267. 280 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This interdisciplinary volume explores the role of images and narratives in different borderscapes. Written by experienced scholars in the field, Border images, border narratives provides fresh insight into how borders, borderscapes, and migration are imagined and narrated in public and private spheres. Offering new ways to approach the political aesthetics of the border and its ambiguities, this volume makes a valuable contribution to the methodological renewal of border studies and presents ways of discussing cultural representations of borders and related processes. Influenced by the thinking of philosopher Jacques Rancière, this timely volume argues that narrated and mediated images of borders and borderscapes are central to the political process, as they contribute to the public negotiation of borders and address issues such as the in/visiblity of migrants and the formation of alternative borderscapes. The contributions analyse narratives and images in literary texts, political and popular imagery, surveillance data, border art, and documentaries, as well as problems related to borderland identities, migration, and trauma. The case studies provide a highly comparative range of geographical contexts ranging from Northern Europe and Britain, via Mediterranean and Mexican-USA borderlands, to Chinese borderlands from the perspectives of critical theory, literary studies, social anthropology, media studies, and political geography.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2020). Grenzungen: Versuche zu einer Poetik der Grenze. Turia + Kant. ISBN 9783851329704. 150 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  »Ohne Grenzquerungen wären wir nicht im Stande, das Andere in uns selbst zu entdecken.« Johan Schimanski entfaltet das Phänomen der Grenze als ein Geschehen, das in seinem Versuch, Ordnung zu schaffen, ebensoviele Verwerfungen produziert. Statt als statische Demarkationslinie konzipiert Schimanski Grenzen als dynamische Gebilde, die als Vorgänge der Grenzung gedacht werden müssen. Da diese Grenzungen grundsätzliche Parallelen zu Schrift aufweisen, eröffnet eine Poetik der Grenze das geeignete Instrumentarium, um ihre zahlreichen Dimensionen, Charakteristika und Effekte zu beschreiben, um die Ambivalenz der Grenze zu artikulieren und ihre komplexe politische Struktur lesbar zu machen.

• Stene-Johansen, Knut; Refsum, Christian & Schimanski, Johan (2018). Living Together – Roland Barthes, the Individual and the Community. Transcript Verlag. ISBN 9783837644319. 400 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Wolfe, Stephen (2017). Border Aesthetics: Concepts and Intersections. Berghahn Books. ISBN 9781785334641. 179 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Few concepts are as central to understanding the modern world as borders, and the now-thriving field of border studies has already produced a substantial literature analyzing their legal, ideological, geographical, and historical aspects. Such studies have hardly exhausted the subject’s conceptual fertility, however, as this pioneering collection on the aesthetics of borders demonstrates. Organized around six key ideas—ecology, imaginary, in/visibility, palimpsest, sovereignty and waiting—the interlocking essays collected here provide theoretical starting points for an aesthetic understanding of borders, developed in detail through interdisciplinary analyses of literature, audio-visual borderscapes, historical and contemporary ecologies, political culture, and migration.

• Stene-Johansen, Knut; Refsum, Christian & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2016). Å leve sammen. Roland Barthes, individet og fellesskapet. Spartacus. ISBN 9788230401781. 444 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Spring, Ulrike (2015). Passagiere des Eises: Polarhelden und arktische Diskurse 1874. Böhlau. ISBN 9783205796060. 719 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Die österreichisch-ungarische Nordpolexpedition (1872-1874) entdeckte nicht nur das Franz-Joseph-Land, sie setzte auch kurzfristig Österreich-Ungarn als Staat mit polaren Interessen auf die europäische Karte des späten 19. Jahrhun- derts. Die Rückkehr der Polarfahrer von Vardø in Norwegen über Hamburg nach Wien im September 1874 war von einer umfassenden europaweiten medialen Aufmerksamkeit begleitet. Insbesondere in Wien sollte in den folgenden Wochen die Expedition zu einem Mikrokosmos der Monarchie stilisiert und zum Mittelpunkt aktueller sozialer, politischer und kultureller Diskurse werden. Die vorliegende Monographie ist die erste ausführliche kulturwissenschaftliche Arbeit über die Expedition. Sie unterscheidet sich von vorangegangen Arbeiten durch ihren Fokus auf den Empfang sowie die europäische Rezeption der Expedition.

• Schimanski, Johan; Theodorsen, Cathrine & Wærp, Henning Howlid (2011). Reiser og ekspedisjoner i det litterære Arktis. Tapir Akademisk Forlag. ISBN 9788251927819. 386 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  I denne antologien undersøker forfatterne hvordan ulike forestillinger om Arktis og det nordlige har oppstått, og hvordan de formidles i reiselitteratur og ekspedisjonsrapporter, i film og skjønnlitteratur, i aviser og vitenskapelige tekster i tiden fra romantikken og fram til vår tid. Samlet utgjør disse forestillingene en arktisk diskurs preget av motsetninger – mellom lys og mørke, mellom det rene og sunne og det farlige og demoniske. Språkbruken formes og utvikles i skjæringspunktet mellom faktiske erfaringer og ulike konvensjoner.

• Ryall, Anka; Schimanski, Johan & Wærp, Henning Howlid (2010). Arctic Discourses. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 9781443819596. 369 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Both fictional and non-fictional accounts of the Arctic have long been a major source of powerful images of the region, and have thus had a crucial part to play in the history of human activities there. This volume provides a wide-reaching investigation into the discourses involved in such accounts, above all into the consolidation of a discourse of “Arcticism” (modelled on Edward Said’s concept of “Orientalism”), but also into the many intersecting discourses of imperialism, nationalism, masculinity, modernity, geography, science, race, ecology, indigeneity, aesthetics, etc. Perspectives originating from inside and outside the Arctic, along with hybrid positions, are examined, with special attention being given to the textual genres, narratives and figures which they mobilize, together with to the close relationship between the Arctic as an unknown place and the literary imagination. The different chapters address a wide geographical range of texts, providing a necessary supplement to most previous work in the field, and also address the wide variety of genres which flourish under the aegis of Arctic discourse, ranging from exploration accounts, travel-writing, political texts and journalism through diaries and historical documents to novels and novelizations, and including also other media, such as music and opera.

• Ryall, Anka; Schimanski, Johan & Wærp, Henning Howlid (2008). Artic Discourses 2008. Universitetet i Tromsø. ISBN 9788290423792. 440 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Wolfe, Stephen (2007). Border Poetics De-limited. Wehrhahn Verlag. ISBN 9783865250339. 256 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Schimanski, Johan (2025). Islands, Real and Metaphorical: Nations, Utopias, Selves, Borders. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2024). Reading, Flight and Homelessness in Ali Smith's Autumn. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Nyman, Jopi; Schimanski, Johan & Llena, Carmen Zamorano (2024). Understanding Temporalities of Cross-Border Migration. I Nyman, Jopi; Schimanski, Johan & Llena, Carmen Zamorano (Red.), Temporalities and Subjectivities in Migration Literature in Europe. Lexington Books. ISSN 9781666945027. s. 1–13. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Temporalities and Subjectivities in Migration Literature in Europe examines migrant stories through the lens of temporality as seen in the role of such issues as integration, waiting, detention, trauma, crisis, and imagined futures. This book argues that a focus on different time scales and perceptions of time will help us understand how the intimate and affective subjectivities of more complex narratives of migration, as articulated in literature, cross into the public sphere and challenge political 'bubbles.' This collection showcases new approaches to and innovative readings of different forms of literary and cultural migration narratives. In addition to developing theoretical tools for the study, the authors present innovative case studies addressing topics such as the European refugee crisis, migration narratives and border crossings in Britain, Spain, and Morocco, as well as experiences of migration in Finland and Norway

• Schimanski, Johan (2023). Towards a Border Poetics of European Borderlands. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  European borderlands – either in the sense of cultural landscapes on each side of a national border or in the sense of large regions transversing large parts of the contintent – have been given a more central role in after the dissolution of the power blocs of cold war Europe. New hybrid and provisional cultures have sprung up where once were security wildernesses and homogenous continuities, evoking memories of imperial pasts and creating cultural bricolages. This paper asks questions about the nature of a literature of European borders in a time of change, using border poetics to identify a series of border configurations and borderland tropes. These include spatial questions of divides, overlaps, margins and the ‘borderlandization’ of entire nations, but also the temporal structures of palimpsests and trauma that come out of cultural and political change. Invoking various examples from the borderlands between Russia and Western Europe as alternative literary negotiations of changing borders, the paper uses Raymond Williams’ concept of “structures of feeling” – itself coming out of his experience of political and cultural change in the Welsh-English borderlands – and a reading of Cecilie Enger’s biographical novel Himmelstormeren (2008) – about photograph Ellisif Wessel’s life in the Norwegian-Russian-Finnish borderlands – to lay out some of the underlying figurations of borderlands.

• Schimanski, Johan (2023). Om Gulraiz Sharifs Hør her’a. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2023). Temporality in Border Poetics. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Certain ongoing processes connected to bordering practices, such as migration and pandemics, have been presented in the public sphere as ‘crises’, unconnected to more complex, long-term temporalities. Such long-duration conditions and changes have been brought to the public attention in investigative journalism and social sciences research. The temporalities of bordering practices have been the subject of intense ethnographic research in migration studies, as well as on a more theoretical level by border studies scholars. The literatures of migration and other forms of bordering often address even longer duration temporalities, providing an antidote to the shorter scale narratives of politics and news media. Given that borders are usually seen as spatial phenomena, how do they allow for temporality, and more particularly temporal borders or transition? Borders and borderlands have been addressed in historical terms as subject to bordering, debordering and rebordering, as mobile, and as palimpsestual border landscapes. Border poetics has focused on the analysis of more everyday border-crossing narratives, involving complex spatio-temporal figurations of the border. In this lecture, Schimanski discusses both borderlands literature and the focus on the long-duration nature of migration in migration literature. He argues for making connections between temporalities of border-crossings described by literary texts and crossings of literary texts themselves into the public sphere.

• Spring, Ulrike; Schimanski, Johan; Aarbakke, Thea & Forberg, Bente (2022). Liv og litteratur på museum (offentlig panelsamtale/video på Youtube). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Å besøke sin favorittforfatters skrivested og hjem er et rituale som går tilbake til 1400-tallet. Fenomenet er skapt av litterære fans og forbundet med uforbeholden beundring. På 1900-tallet ble forfatterhjem til museer som hyllet nasjonale figurer. Dagens museumspolitikk stiller andre krav til museenes formidlingstilbud. De skal fornye og problematisere. Hvordan behandle hittil underkommuniserte sider av et forfatterskap? Hvordan stille ut en vanskelig forfatter? Forfattermuseer er i endring. I samtalen med redaktørene av boka Transforming Author Museums: From Sites of Pilgrimage to Cultural Hubs (2022), skal dette under debatt.

• Schimanski, Johan (2022). Europæiske grænser (ud)foldet: Ydre og indre grænser i Julya Rabinowichs Spaltkopf. Passage. ISSN 0901-8883. 37(87), s. 23–34. doi: 10.7146/pas.v37i87.133262. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2022). Imagining Sustainable Borders in Migration and Climate Change Literature. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In 2016 Amitav Ghosh published a book-length essay on our failure to act effectively on climate change, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable. In it he argues that this failure comes not only from a lack of scientific and historical knowledge, but also a lack of imagination. He argues that one of our most established ways of thinking imaginatively about the world, ‘serious’ literature, is so focused on the realistic and typical that it avoids dealing with change and crisis on an environmental and societal level. He suggests science fiction, a form of literature concerned with environmental and societal change, as an antidote. This lecture is based on my work within a collaborative project on ‘sustainable borders’ in an age of climate change. I will be examining two works of climate science fiction, showing how they present different configurations of borders and migration in futures of rising sea levels and shifting land borders. John Lanchester dystopian novel The Wall (2019) images a Britain surrounded by a wall following its coastline, a wall that has the double function of keeping out both the sea and climate refugees. Kim Stanley Robinson’s critical utopia New York 2040 (2017) describes how people have learned to live both with a city in which the streets have become canals and with climate refugees. Ghosh frames the anthropocene as a product of a forgotten history of the intimate relationship between empire and the petrochemical extraction that has led to climate change. Extending his juxtaposition of history and poetics, I will ask whether postcolonial literatures of migration – with their border-crossing tropes and worrying of the banal nationalism of the typical and the everyday – can also imagine crisis differently from ‘serious’ literature. I suggest that the more contemporary settings of works such as Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet (2016–2020) and Ghosh’s own Gun Island (2019) can be read against science fictional imaginings as pointing forwards to the climate migration literature of the future. Short Abstract Amitav Ghosh suggests in his 2016 essay The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable that science fiction, a form of literature concerned with environmental and societal change, as a form more adequate to the representation of crisis that ‘serious’ fiction, with its focus on everyday realism. I will be examining two works of climate science fiction – John Lanchester dystopian novel The Wall (2019) and Kim Stanley Robinson’s critical utopia New York 2040 (2017) – showing how they present different configurations of borders and migration in futures of rising sea levels and shifting land borders. However, I I will also ask whether postcolonial literatures of migration – with their border-crossing tropes and worrying of the banal nationalism of the typical and the everyday – can also imagine crisis differently from ‘serious’ literature, reading the more contemporary settings of works such as Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet (2016–2020) and Ghosh’s own Gun Island (2019) against those of science fictional imaginings, and suggesting that they point to towards the climate migration fiction of the future.

• Schimanski, Johan (2022). Cognitive Approaches to Literary Bordering. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Borders are central to spatially and culturally. How can we as readers use literary texts and other narratives in order to understand borders, borderings and border experiences? In this lecture I will be using a combination of border studies, border poetics, and cognitive approaches to help find out. A border poetics approach proposes connecting borders met by characters in narrative storyworlds with the borders of the narrative itself as they are met by readers or listeners. Many analyses of borders in literature still however focus mainly on borders that are presented in texts rather than on the borders of those presentations. The question of how these borders can be linked to the borders of those textual presentations remains to be answered fully. I propose that 4E cognitive approaches (around Embodiment, Enactment, Extension and Embeddedness), involving also cultural cognition, emotion, predictive processing and kinesic cues can be combine with border poetics to provide answers to this question. I will also be drawing on cognitive approaches in the interdisciplinary field of border studies which focuses on the way in which narratives are co-constructed by tellers and readers/listeners. To do this I will be carrying out analyses of borders in Aritha van Herk’s Places Far from Ellesmere and Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient. These do not only address important bordering processes – postcolonial, centre/periphery, Arctic – in the Canadian context, but also reflect actively on cognition, reading and bodies. I will use border poetics analysis as a starting point, mapping the texts onto the geographical and bordered spaces of Canada, showing how they map these spaces on to a bordered textual space. After that I will show how they invoke various kinds of embodiment, movement and cognition for the reader, connecting these to topographical, cultural, architectural, epistemological and textual borders.

• Schimanski, Johan (2022). Space, Borders and Cognition in Urban Diaspora Literature. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Borders are central to our world of migration and diaspora. How can we as readers use literary texts and other narratives in order to understand borders, borderings and border experiences? In this lecture I will be using a combination of border studies, border poetics, and cognitive approaches to help find out. A border poetics approach proposes connecting borders met by characters in narrative storyworlds with the borders of the narrative itself as they are met by readers or listeners. Many analyses of borders in literature, however, still focus mainly on borders that are presented in texts rather than on the borders of those presentations. Beyond the more immediate observation that many novels begin or end with protagonists crossing e. g. national borders, it remains to be asked how the borders presented in texts can be linked to borders of those textual presentations. I suggest that 4E cognitive approaches (around Embodiment, Enactment, Extension and Embeddedness), involving also cultural cognition, emotion, predictive reading and kinetic cues can be combined with border poetics to provide answers to this question. To do this I will be carrying out an analysis of a poem addressing urban spaces by Sarah Zahid, the child of Pakistani parents who grew up in Oslo, using border poetics analysis as a starting point.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2021). (Un)folding European Borders. I Müller-Funk, Wolfgang; Spreicer, Jelena & Steininger, Gerlinde (Red.), Borders of Europe. Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici. ISSN 9788895868547. s. 45–56. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The volume, the output of a conference held at the Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici (Rome, 27 Frebruary-1 March 2019), entails two different issues. On the one hand it aims to discuss the state of the arts with regard to the philosophical and cultural discourse on liminal phenomena, while, on the other hand, it refers to the everyday life of European politics, which is not only influenced by the debate on migration and on the borders of the European Union, between Europe and its neighbours, but also within its own member states. The title is deliberately ambiguous. It calls into questions whether Europe can be defined by specific modes of demarcations, but it also points to the quality and nature of these borders (inside as well as outside) and to the role and function of the half-continent.

• Schimanski, Johan (2021). Space, Borders and Cognition in Urban Diasporic Fiction. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Literature involves characters living in spaces and events ‘taking place’, but also the spatial existence of authors, texts and readers. But can one discuss literary spaces without addressing the boundaries and relationships that constitute them? How may border poetics serve, supplement or challenge spatial poetics? How do readers cross the borders into literary spaces? Narrative relies on characters crossing boundaries between symbolic spaces (e.g. families, classes, cultures, life stages) – boundaries often manifested as topographical borders on different scales. One needs only think of the many novels about characters who move in and out of houses, who move between rural and urban spaces, or who move across the borders of nations. In this paper I will be examining a corpus of urban diasporic fictions set in the city of Oslo. While much contemporary migration literature in Norwegian focuses on crossings across Norway’s national borders, this paper examines novels focusing on the topographical borderlands of city suburbs and the symbolic borders between cultures. Zeshan Shakar’s Tante Ulrikkes vei (‘Aunt Ulrikke’s Street’ 2017) and Maria Navarro Skaranger’s Alle utlendinger har lukka gardiner (‘All Foreigners have their Curtains Closed’ 2015), have attracted much recent attention. They follow on previous examples such as Mala Naveen’s Desiland (2010) and the ‘father’ of contemporary Norwegian diasporic literature, Khalid Hussain’s Pakkis (1986) – as well as relating to a wider international corpus. In approaching some of the above texts the paper expands on Anne-Maria Sturm’s work (2020) on combining the narratology of space with border poetics in the study of migration literature. However, in line with recent proposals within the interdisciplinary field of border studies, focusing specifically on urban borders (Scott 2020), the paper suggests that cognitive approaches may also be key to understanding the function of borders and cultural encounters between people, characters, readers and texts. Using elements of 4E (Embedded, Embodied, Extended, Enacted) theories of cognition already applied within literary studies (e.g. Kukkonen 2019), its sees the novels concerned as using the formal techniques at their disposal to help readers think through what it is to live on urban and diasporic boundaries. Kukkonen, Karin. 2019. 4E Cognition and Eighteenth-Century Fiction: How the Novel Found its Feet (Oxford University Press: New York, NY). Scott, James Wesley. 2020. 'Cognitive Geographies of Bordering: The Case of Urban Neighbourhoods in Transition', Theory & Psychology, [issue not assigned]: 1-18. Sturm, Anne-Maria. 2020. Grenzen und Grenzüberschreitungen: llija Trojanow – Dimitré Dinev – Sibylle Lewitscharoff – Evelina Jecker Lambreva (Frank & Timme: Berlin).

• Schimanski, Johan (2021). Border Traumas, Aesthetics and Memory. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Taking as its departure point the use of photographs in a novel by Swedish author Johannes Anyuru, this lecture examines the role of border traumas and memory objects in migration literature with help of border aesthetics. We ask whether published narratives of migrant border-crossing may involve the longer, ‘despectacularizing’ temporalities of cultural memory in diasporic and multi-generational contexts.

• Schimanski, Johan (2021). Temporalities and migratory border-crossings in literature and other discourse. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In the virtual lecture, Johan Schimanski presents the work he has been leading on temporalities and migratory border-crossings in literature and other discourse. He will offer a general reflection on borders and temporalities through the lens of border poetics. Certain ongoing processes connected to bordering practices, such as migration, pandemics and Brexit, have been presented in the public sphere as “crises”, unconnected to more complex, long-term temporalities. Such long-duration conditions and changes have been brought to the public attention in investigative journalism and social sciences research. The temporalities of bordering practices have been the subject of intense ethnographic research in migration studies, as well as on a more theoretical level by border studies scholars. The literature of migration mostly seems to address even longer duration temporalities, providing an antidote to the shorter scale narratives of politics and news media. Given that borders are usually seen as spatial phenomena, how do they allow for temporal borders? Borders and borderlands have been addressed in historical terms as subject to bordering, debordering and rebordering, as mobile, and as palimpsestual border landscapes. Border poetics has focused on the analysis of more everyday border-crossing narratives, involving complex spatio-temporal figurations of the border. Schimanski discusses migration literature with its focus on the long-duration nature of migration, with various cultural borders often being crossed long after the topographical. He presents ongoing research in the NOS-HS workshop series “Temporalities and Subjectivities of Crossing” which connects the temporality of migrant crossing topographical border by migrant to their crossings into the public sphere through literature and other discourse.

• Spring, Ulrike; Schimanski, Johan Henrik; Dachsberger, Roman & Thaler, Tobias (2021). Gefangen im ewigem Eis: Aufbruch zum Nordpol. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2021). Von der Isolation in der Arktis zum Spektakel in Wien. I Chahrour, Marcel; Höfler, Theresa; Schretzmayer, Birgit & Tavčar-Schaller, Andrea (Red.), Sehnsucht Ferne – Aufbruch in neue Welten. Schallaburg, Schallaburg Kulturbetriebsges.m.b.H.. s. 238–243. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2021). Seien Sie wilkommen! [video 3'30"]. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Gfrereis, Heike; Neundlinger, Helmut; Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2021). Littérature, expositions et communication: Une conversation. [Journal]. Culture et Musées. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Forte de ses compétences en littérature et en théorie et pratique des expositions, Heike Gfrereis est cheffe du département des musées aux Archives de la littérature allemande, à Marbach, et commissaire de nombreuses expositions littéraires. Helmut Neundlinger, conservateur du musée W. H. Auden à Kirchstetten, est un écrivain, chercheur et critique qui travaille au Centre de gestion des collections de musées de l’Université du Danube à Krems, et à la collection littéraire de Basse-Autriche. Leur échange avec deux chercheurs du projet Traum (Transformer les musées d’auteurs) a eu lieu à Oslo en 2019. Nous discutons du désir d’exposer la littérature, de la manière dont on peut se libérer des objets de la manière de désapprendre les notions reçues de la littérature, de l’importance de l’interaction et du jeu, de ce qui peut rendre les auteurs difficiles à exposer et des réalités économiques de l’exposition de la littérature.

• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2021). Nordlicht in Birmingham: Transcultural, Translingual, Transdisciplinary. I Dorer, Johanna; Horak, Roman & Marschik, Matthias (Red.), Cultural Studies Revisited: Nordlicht/Revontulet – Aufbruch in Österreich und internationale Entwicklung. Springer Nature. ISSN 9783658320829. s. 323–331. doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-32083-6_26. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Revontulet (finnisch: Nordlicht) heißt der Titel dieses Bandes in Anspielung auf den ersten Cultural Studies-Kongress in Tampere. In ihrer Einladung für diesen Band schreiben die Herausgeber*innen „Cultural Studies waren ein Versprechen, vielleicht sogar eine wissenschaftliche Verheißung. Im wahrsten Wortsinn erschienen sie, als in Finnland die ersten internationalen Tagungen stattfanden, wie ein Nordlicht am Horizont.“

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2020). Fixing Images of Movement: The Border Poetics of Photographs in the Swedish-African Literary Borderscape. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Johannes Anyuru (b. 1979) and Jonas Hassen Khemiri (b. 1978) are both leading voices in contemporary Swedish literature. These two male authors both have Swedish mothers and fathers who have migrated from Africa, from Uganda and Tunisia respectively. Both engage with the entanglement of their fathers’ stories of migration with their own stories of becoming authors in the novels addressed here, En storm kom från paradiset (Anyuru 2012; trans. A Storm Blew in From Paradise Anyuru 2015) and Montecore: En unik Tiger (Khemiri 2006; trans. Montecore: The Silence of the Tiger 2011), using strategies from historiographic metafiction. In this lecture, Johan Schimanski will be placing the novels in the context of the African-European borderscape and giving readings of photographs and short textual excerpts from the two novels using the tools of border poetics. He will be exploring the roles of photographic images in these novels as borders (topographical, temporal, symbolic, epistemological, media, cf. Schimanski 2006), as border umbilical objects (Castillo 2007), and as traumatic images of bordering (Schimanski 2019), making reference to previous work on Anyuru’s novel (Schimanski 2017) and to work within border aesthetics (e.g. Brambilla and Pötzsch 2017).

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2020). Å få & å utvikle prosjektidéer. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2020). A Neoromantic Goose in the Writer’s Home Museum. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2020). Hva kommuniseres i forfattermuseer? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Gfrereis, Heike; Neundlinger, Helmut; Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Spring, Ulrike (2020). Literature, Exhibitions and Communication: A Conversation. [Journal]. Nordisk Museologi. doi: 10.5617/nm.7976. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Informed by her competence in literature and the theory and practice of exhibitions, Heike Gfrereis is Head of the Museum Department at the Archive of German Literature in Marbach, and curator of many literary exhibitions. Helmut Neundlinger, curator of the W. H. Auden Memorial Museum in Kirchstetten, is a writer, researcher and critic working at the Center for Museum Collections Management at the Danube University Krems and the literary collection of Lower Austria. The following “exchange of knowledge” between them and two researchers in the TRAUM– Transforming Author Museums project took place in Oslo in 2019. We discuss the desire to exhibit literature and not only biography, how one can free oneself from objects and how objects can create freedom, how to unlearn received notions of literature, the importance of interaction and play, what can make authors difficult to exhibit, and the economic realities of exhibiting literature.

• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2020). Biografi og verk. Kommunikasjonsprosesser i forfattermuseer. En introduksjon. Nordisk Museologi. ISSN 1103-8152. 28(1), s. 4–7. doi: 10.5617/nm.7957. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2020). Receding Ice Limits: A Historical-Rhetorical Genealogy. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In 1873, the Austro-Hungarian Polar Expedition discovered Franz Josef Land. Viennese journalists fantasized rhetorically about extending imperial borders into the Arctic, commenting on social and political tensions within the dual monarchy rather than desiring to colonize a useless Arctic. Their images however built on 19th-century perceptions of the Arctic as a (possibly open) polar sea hidden by impenetrable barriers of ice. Ice limits shifted topographically with year and season, defined the structure of heroic exploration narratives, and functioned as epistemological barriers. Trying out new techniques and debunking the open sea theory, the expedition helped move exploration from the oceanosphere to the cryosphere. Today, discourse on ice limits signifies the melting of the Arctic, economic opportunities and climate change. For some, a navigatable “open sea” gives liquidity to capital; for others, receding ice destroys a natural environment and becomes a catastrophic global tipping point. Analyzing texts and images from the 19th and 21st centuries, we show that Arctic, Danube and Alpine ice is not only a question of physical topographies, but also a changing rhetorical figuring of borders, lines, zones and thresholds, and that genealogical understanding of these discourses will enable action.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2020). (Un)folding Borders. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Border-crossings take the form of extended border-crossings, and it can often seem that those who have crossed a national border have not really crossed the border at all. They visit or live in another country, but are bordered off from their surroundings by the symbolic boundaries of culture and language, a border which can follow the topographical contours of a diasporic or touristic community or their own bodies. Or they live on these borders they have nominally crossed, in hybrid cultures and ambivalent spaces: they have both crossed and not crossed the border. But the (il)logic of ex/internal borders may also apply to larger territories, such as those of Europe, with its historical divides between “real Europes” and “other Europes”. The location of the outer border of Europe is unsure: it may only be an outer border in one conception of Europe, and at the same time be an inner European border in another conception of Europe. Here we will be looking at Julya Rabinowichs debut novel Spaltkopf (2011) to see how it – both as a text in the outside world and as a representation of the world inside the text – uses rhetorical and narrative (con-)figurations order to negotiate memories of historically changing ex/internal European borders.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2020). Border Poetics: Reading Narratives of Border Crossing. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2019). (Un)folding European Borders in Narratives of Ex/internal Migration. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Because so many border-crossings take the form of extended border-crossings – one can never be sure when the border has actually been crossed – it can often seem that travellers and migrants who have crossed a national border have not really crossed the border at all. It is as if they have taken the border with them, and still exist in bubble-like extension of the territory they come from. They visit or live in another country, but are bordered off from their surroundings by the symbolic boundaries of culture and language, a border which can follow the topographical contours of a diasporic or touristic community or their own bodies. Or they live on these borders they have nominally crossed, in hybrid cultures and ambivalent spaces: they have both crossed and not crossed the border. In both cases, the external border has been moved into the territory and become an internal border, either to the territory or the border-crosser’s self. In his “DissemiNation” essay, Homi K. Bhabha shows how the external borders of the nation always are intimately connected to its internal borders in an uncanny way. The (il)logic of ext/internal borders may also apply to larger territories: Europe is a case in point. But multinational continental spaces pose their own challenges, since the folding of external territorial borders onto internal spaces through travel and migration overlays a space which is already divided, into nations and, in the European case, the divides between “real Europes” and “other Europes”. The location of the outer border of Europe is unsure: it may only be an outer border in one conception of Europe, and at the same time be an inner European border in another conception of Europe. Imperial, colonial and cold war histories have placed the borders of Europe (and Western Europe) at radically different places on the globe, so a border far away from todays’ present external European border may in memory have been an outer border of Europe (or Western Europe). Memories of in/external borders on both national and continental scales are publically negotiated in the two published, book length narratives I will be citing in this paper: Spaltkopf (first published in German, 2008, translated as Splithead, 2011) by Julya Rabinowich, born in 1970 in Moscow and emigrating with her family to Austria in 1977; and Seperator (first published in Norwegian translation, 2011, published in Swedish, 2012) by Enel Melberg, born in Tallinn in 1943 and fleeing with her family to Sweden in 1944. In this paper I will be arguing that these narratives – both as texts in the outside world and as representations of the world inside texts – use rhetorical and narrative (con-)figurations order to negotiate memories of historically changing ex/internal European borders.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2019). Scaling between Border Poetics and Border Studies. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Any wider conception of borders will have a correspondingly broad applicability. Borders can come into play between cultures, nations, regions and continents, but also on on a much smaller scale, for example on the level of bodies and texts. The discursive construction of borders in political, historical or everday life, will move between borders on different scales simply because discourse is the way we negotiate large-scale questions on the level of language. In this paper I will be using the opening of the semi-autobiographical novel Spaltkopf (2008, translated as Splithead, 2011) by Julya Rabinowich, in order to show how borders move between different levels of scale and mobilities of border-crossing. In doing so I will trace an archaeology of the theoretical concerns, concepts and interdisciplinary engagements which connect Border Poetics and the broader field of Border Studies, along with other research fields such as Border Theory, Border Aesthetics and Border Textures. What may such an archaeology tell us about possible future developments in the study of borders and culture in a world in which borders have become globalized?

• Tennøe, Arthur; Spring, Ulrike; Undheim, Inger; Ryall, Anka; Aarbakke, Thea & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2019). Å stille ut litteratur og forfattere. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Hvorfor besøker vi utstillinger om forfattere og litteratur? Det finnes flere og flere forfattermuseer og forfattersentre i Norge, og bibliotekene lager regelmessig litteraturutstillinger. Er vi først og fremst opptatt av forfatterens liv eller forfatterens tekster når vi besøker slike utstillinger? Kan slike utstillinger brukes som møtesteder og bidra til et demokratisk samfunn? Hvilke strategier bruker museer, sentre og biblioteker når de stiller ut litteratur og forfattere, og hvorfor? Lesning av forfatter Elizabeth Beanca Halvorsen, innlegg av Ulrike Spring fra Høgskulen på Vestlandet/Universitetet i Oslo, Arthur Tennøe fra Nasjonalbiblioteket, Inger Undheim fra Garborgsenteret, Thea Aarbakke fra Høgskulen på Vestlandet, og panelsamtale (ordstyrer: Arthur Tennøe) med Thea Aarbakke, Inger Undheim, Ulrike Spring, Anka Ryall fra Universitetet i Tromsø Norges arktiske universitet, og Johan Schimanski fra Universitetet i Oslo.

• Dvergsdal, Alvhild; Olsen, Marianne A.; Spring, Ulrike; Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Fulsås, Narve (2019). Den vanskelige forfatteren. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Siden 1800-tallet har vi hedret skjønnlitterære forfattere gjennom utstillinger og museer. Men hva skjer når det kommer fram at noen sider ved forfatteren ikke er så beundringsverdige? I dag avsløres kjente historiske forfattere for deres holdninger. Noen passer ikke inn i lokale og nasjonale fortellinger eller blir rett og slett ikke lenger lest. Hvordan skal vi utstille de «vanskelige» forfatterne? Alvhild Dvergsdal fra Hamsunsenteret, Marianne A. Olsen fra Perspektivet Museum, Ulrike Spring fra Høgskulen på Vestlandet/Universitetet i Oslo og Narve Fulsås fra Universitetet i Tromsø innleder til debatt. Ordstyrer: Johan Schimanski fra Universitetet i Oslo

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2019). Border Aesthetics. I Franzini, Elio; Griffero, Tonino; Matteucci, Giovanni & Gatti, Andrea (Red.), International Lexicon of Aesthetics. Mimesis Edizioni. ISSN 9788857559926. doi: 10.7413/18258630068. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2019). kunnskapsutveksling, framtidig permanent Cora Sandel-utstilling. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2019). Fixing Images of Movement: The Border Aesthetics of Photographs in Narratives of Trans-Mediterranean Migration. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This lecture presents published narratives in Norwegian and Swedish about Trans-Mediterrean migration by authors such as Roda Ahmed, Johannes Anyuru and Jonas Hassan Khemiri in order to investigate the representation of migration as media spectacle, as trauma, as memory, and as border object. The lecture prepares for a focused discussion on migration, representation, narratives/images, border aesthetics and border poetics.

• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2019). Typologie von Dichterwohnungen. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2019). Das trans/nationale Dichterheim. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  SchriftstellerInnenmuseen oder DichterInnenheime zeichnen sich gerne durch einen hagiographischen Zugang aus, in dem die SchriftstellerInnen in einem spezifischen nationalen Kontext verortet werden. Literatur, Kultur und Territorium werden in dieser Ausstellungspraxis zu einer Einheit; die gelebte Realität der Autorin als Reisende und die übernationale Popularität ihrer Literatur wird hingegen vernachlässigt. Der Vortrag wird Ausgangspunkt in verschiedensten musealen Repräsentationen von Autor und Literatur nehmen, diese auf ihr transnationales Potenzial untersuchen und dadurch neue Sichtweisen auf die Darstellung nationaler SchriftstellerInnen eröffnen. Als Beispiele dienen ungarische sowie andere europäische Museen.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2019). Ali Smith’s Border Analysis: Populism and Migration in the Seasonal Quartet. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In her Seasonal Quartet, Scottish author Ali Smith has set out to describe the aftermath of the Brexit referendum close after the event, defying the tendency of literature to tackle historical events and experience in a long-term and retrospective temporality. The novels, currently being published in sequence according to the seasons described in each book - so far Autumn (2016), Winter (2017), Spring (2018) have appeared, with Summer planned - both allows readers to identify with the sense of outrage and despair channeled through the main protagonists of the books and to respond to simplified populist images of migration and British identity. The books provide a counterpoint to their own synchrony with contemporary events by evoking the embodied memories of historical migration to Britain and the histories of marginalized female British artists. Borders are both a major explicit motif and theme in the books, and (as in principal in all literary texts) omnipresent in many other ways. This paper approaches the controversial concept of “populism” through the double lens of borders and migration, showing how Smith’s books formulate a border analysis of contemporary populism not only as focused on perceived threats to national borders (migration and the EU), but also as divisive form of internal bordering in communities. A discursive approach to competing definitions of “populism” (right-wing/left-wing, anti-elitist/democratic) will make possible a critical appraisal of Smiths literary negotiation of populism, community, diversity and democracy.

• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2019). Exhibiting Transnational Mobility in the Author Museum. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Author museums have long been associated with national narratives, yet with the increased awareness of the transnational mobility of authors, readers, visitors, literature and objects, museums have begun to focus more on international, transnational and cosmopolitan dimensions in their exhibitions. Indeed, author mobility has resulted in a number of old and new author museums situated outside the authors’ countries of origin. Within the research project TRAUM – Transforming Author Museums, financed by the Research Council of Norway, we (a historian with curatorial experience and a researcher in comparative literature) have developed an approach to literary exhibitions based around the idea that such exhibitions always involve (at least) a double act of communication. Literary exhibitions are messages sent from their curators to their visitors about messages sent from authors to readers. Using this simple model, we can understand better how author museums – for example the Strindberg Museum in Stockholm, or the Strindberg Museum in Saxen in Upper Austria – exhibit transnational mobilities on many different levels and concerning many different actors, texts, objects and spaces. At the same time this rather reductive model of communication – as contemporary exhibitionary strategies make us aware – can be a key to understanding its own distorting limitations and productive paradoxes. Who is the Strindberg Museum in Saxen for – tourists cycling along the Danube and literary pilgrims, Swedish or Austrian or other? Or for local school students doing projects on Strindberg? Does the enlarged photograph of the local stone formations that inspired Strindberg’s visions in Inferno lead to the marked path near the museum, in the local and Austrian landscape, or to the book by the Swedish and cosmopolitan author on his time in both Paris and Saxen?

• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2019). Literatur ausstellen. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2018). Raum und Grenze: Theoretischer Impuls. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2018). Migrating Images of the North. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Johan Schimanski is Professor of Comparative Literature and Head of Research at the Department of Literature, European Languages and Area Studies at the University of Oslo, and part-time research Professor of Cultural Encounters at the University of Eastern Finland. His research interests include border poetics, Arctic discourses, postcolonialism, national identity, science fiction, literary museums. Recent publications include (with Ulrike Spring) an interdisciplinary monograph on images of the Arctic in 1870s Central Europe, Passagiere des Eises: Polarhelden und arktische Diskurse 1874 (2015) and (edited with Stephen Wolfe) a collaboration on key concepts within border aesthetics, Border Aesthetics: Concepts and Intersections (2017).

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2018). Arktiske diskurser og fortellinger. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Aglert, Katja (2018). Kjønn og det polare, med utgangspunkt i Katja Aglerts kunstprosjekt Antifreeze. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2018). Can Border Narratives Change Public Conceptions of Borders? The Norwegian–Somali Borderscape in Literature, Public Debate and Knowledge Production. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Building on previous work tracing the narrative and rhetorical production of border concepts in novels and autobiographical texts which address the Somali diaspora experience in Norway, this paper assesses the impact of such narratives on bordering and borderscaping processes in the public sphere. By situating book publications by Amal Aden and Roda Ahmed in a broader field of public discourse including book reviews, social media, immigration debates and research dissemination, the paper compares the borderscape produced in the texts themselves with the borderscapes resulting from their publication. Novels and published autobiographies can be seen as media events subject to mediation and remediation processes, involving specific horizons of expectation and genre protocols. The paper addresses books by Roda Ahmed and Amal Aden, both were born in Somalia, but grew up in Norway. Both involve various kinds of topographical border crossings between Somalia and Norway or between different parts of the Somali diaspora, along with various symbolic, temporal, medial and epistemological border crossings. Along with major narrative border configurations concerning liberation and captivity, both present a repertoire of different border metaphors, each implying different conceptions of the border. Here the focus will lie on how this repertoire compares with that found in the public reception of each book. Both books have been followed by newspaper reviews, book blog entries, social media discussions, library recommendations, public debates, and mass media interviews in which the metaphorical border landscapes in the texts themselves are remediated and negotiated. Discourse analyses with a focus on border concepts in the form of rhetorical figures (e.g. metaphors) and narrative configurations as ”nodal points” thus allow for comparisons which reveal and suggest ways in which literary and biographical narratives affect public attitudes to borders and also border policies.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Spring, Ulrike (2018). The Glocal in Literary Exhibitions. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2018). Ghostly Voices in the Author Museum. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  When we visit an author museum, especially an author’s home, the objects and rooms suggest to us the author who has lived there. The author will have seen, touched or used many of the objects, but the author’s body is itself not present. It is as if the author haunts the house of the author museum, yet we do not feel afraid or uncomfortable. In this lecture we will take as our departure point two ghost stories in Selma Lagerlöf’s Löwensköldska ringen, and discuss the many-layered narratives, intentions, heritages, identities, temporalities and presentation strategies which author’s home museums, like the ghost stories, involve. Using Mårbacka and other examples of authors’ homes and literary museums, we will ask how the author’s home uses such multi-layering to create authority, how such multilayering may allow the museum to open itself to transformation, and whether a focus on the spectral is a way of counteracting tendencies to make the museum into a monument or memorial to the author? We will also be be arguing for the potential to understand the author’s home through the author’s texts: in Selma Lagerlöf’s case especially in the way she describes care, inheritance, hospitality and hauntings in the many houses which figure in her fictions.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2018). Crossing and Gendering Borders. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Can crossings of borders be gendered? We know that women and men have been ascribed different roles in historical discourses of national identity (Sommer 1990; Yuval-Davis 1997), but what about discourses of bordering and border-crossing? In this lecture I will be using a border poetics approach to analyse both theoretical concepts and narratives, focusing especially on topographical, symbolic and epistemological borders. I will be identifying narrative figures and configurations of space and time which can be connected to established border concepts such as the umbilical border object (Castillo 2007) and the matricial borderspace (Lichtenberg-Ettinger 1994), both of which call on bodily borders perceived as gendered. In order to establish these concepts, I will first use examples from previous readings (Lang and Schimanski 2010; Schimanski 2010, 2013) of literary texts by e.g. Jean Genet (1961), Veza Canetti (1994), Dannie Abse (1992), Terézia Mora (1999) and Yoko Tawada (1991). From these departure points I will address in more detail passages in two published migration narratives written by 1.5-generation Somalian-born migrants to Norway, Roda Ahmed’s novel Forberedelsen (2008, “The Preparation”) and Amal Aden’s testimonial Min Drøm Om Frihet (2009, “My Dream of Freedom”). Finally, I will be asking whether certain central concepts within feminist discourse and feminist theory – such as gender roles, the glass ceiling, situated knowledge, double vision, écriture féminine, corporeal feminism, intersectionality, nomadic subjects and queerness – might be seen as border concepts, and how they may be applied to migration literature.

• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2018). Ghostly Voices in the Author Museum. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  When we visit an author museum, especially an author’s home, the objects and rooms suggest to us the author who has lived there. The author will have seen, touched or used many of the objects, but the author’s body is itself not present. It is as if the author haunts the house of the author museum, yet we do not feel afraid or uncomfortable. In this paper we will take as our departure point two ghost stories in Selma Lagerlöf’s Löwensköldska ringen, and discuss the many-layered narratives, intentions, heritages, identities, temporalities and presentation strategies which author’s home museums, like the ghost stories, involve. Using Selma Lagerlöf’s Mårbacka and other examples of authors’ homes and literary museums, we will ask how the author’s home uses such multi-layering to create authority, how such multilayering may allow the museum to open itself to transformation, and whether a focus on the spectral is a way of counteracting tendencies to make the museum into a monument or memorial to the author? We will also be be arguing for the potential to understand the author’s home through the author’s texts: in Selma Lagerlöf’s case especially in the way she describes care, inheritance, hospitality and hauntings in the many houses which figure in her fictions.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2018). Visitors through Time: Homes, Heritage and Hospitality. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2018). Unfolding Ex/Internal Borders in Narratives of Migration: A Border Poetics Approach. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Because so many border-crossings take the form of extended border-crossings – one can never be sure when the border has actually been crossed – it can often seem that travellers and migrants who have crossed a national border have not really crossed the border at all. It is as if they have taken the border with them, and still exist in bubble-like extension of the territory they come from. They visit or live in another country, but are bordered off from their surroundings by the symbolic boundaries of culture and language, a border which can follow the topographical contours of a diasporic or touristic community or their own bodies. Or they live on these borders they have nominally crossed, in hybrid cultures and ambivalent spaces: they have both crossed and not crossed the border. In both cases, the external border has been moved into the territory and become an internal border, either to the territory or the border-crosser’s self. In his “DissemiNation” essay, Homi K. Bhabha shows how the external borders of the nation always are intimately connected to its internal borders in an uncanny way. The (il)logic of ext/internal borders may also apply to larger territories: Europe is a case in point. But multinational continental spaces pose their own challenges, since the folding of external territorial borders onto internal spaces through travel and migration overlays a space which is already divided, into nations and, in the European case, the divides between “real Europes” and “other Europes”. The location of the outer border of Europe is unsure: it may only be an outer border in one conception of Europe, and at the same time be an inner European border in another conception of Europe. Imperial, colonial and cold war histories have placed the borders of Europe at radically different places on the globe, so a border far away from todays’ present external European border may in memory have been an outer border of Europe. In the workshop we will be using parts of the border poetics toolbox to show how published texts can function as public engagements with geopolitical transformations. We will be examining together passages from two books which contain memory narratives of in/external borders and migrations on both national and continental scales: Spaltkopf (first published in German, 2008, translated as Splithead, 2011) by Julya Rabinowich, born in 1970 in Moscow and emigrating with her family to Austria in 1977; and Seperator (first published in Norwegian translation, 2011, published in Swedish, 2012) by Enel Melberg, born in Tallinn in 1943 and fleeing with her family to Sweden in 1944. We will be asking how these narratives – both as texts and as representations of the world inside texts – use rhetorical and narrative (con-)figurations as aesthetic and epistemological engagements in order to negotiate memories of ex/internal European borders.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2018). konsulentarbeid, utstillingstekster til "Science fiction – fra Gutenberg-galaksen til cyberspace". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2018). Globalized Borders: An Archaeology of Border Theory, Border Poetics and Border Aesthetics. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Border Theory, Border Poetics and Border Aesthetics are theoretical formations which inhabit the interstices between Literary, Cultural and Border Studies in the wake of poststructuralism, postcolonialism and Chicana/o studies. In this lecture I will be tracing an archaeology of the theoretical concerns, concepts and interdisciplinary engagements which have developed in these approaches to borders. What may such an archaeology tell us about possible future developments in the study of borders and culture in a world in which borders have become globalized, such as the recent formation of the Border Textures concept?

• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan (2018). Who speaks in the Author Museum? Finding intentions and authority in literary exhibitions. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  We will be presenting the research project TRAUM – Transforming Author Museums, and taking our departure point in various examples, discussing 1. how author museums can be both read as historical sources to authors’ intentions and themselves be read as intended texts, 2. how Author museums can focus on the contemporary and historical intentions of the Authors and exhibition producers, and 3. how author museums can give authority to specific authors and texts in canonization processes.

• Schimanski, Johan (2018). Liminality and Border Poetics, Thresholds and Border Aesthetics. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In border poetics, thresholds are border figurations which configure the border as a place of overlap and disjuncture between different versions of the border in different dimension (the topographical, the symbolic, the temporal, the epistemological, the textual). Even the most concrete topographical threshold dividing between the inside and the outside of the house complicates the unambiguous image of the border as a line on a single surface: thresholds are often symbolic divisions between the public and the private, spaces in which we can allow the other in over our epistemological border; crossing them or standing on them involves temporalities; and they are the borders of the house seen as a material medium. Because of their similarity with another figuration of the border, the fold, the threshold can suggest doubling, ambiguity and reflexivity; they are in-betweens in which we are in one space but partake in an other. Standing on the threshold, we can cross the epistemological boundary without crossing the topographical boundary. Perhaps by this very token, the fold of the threshold can imply a power hierarchy. As a border figuration, the threshold is what Rancière calls a ‘partage du sensible', a division or a sharing of the seeable and the hearable and thus, as Rancière would argue, an political aesthetic. I will be exploring the political aesthetic of threshold figurations and different conceptions of liminality using examples from fictions and testimonials of migration, arguing that the threshold is not only a typical aesthetic figuration, but intimately connected to (most conceptions of) the process of aesthesis, sensing or perception. Along the way I will suggest ways of connecting border poetics and border aesthetics with the parallel and connected tradition of liminality studies in literature and art.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2018). What is the North Like? Questions and Answers While Crossing Borders. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Research on images of the North has established a repertoire of images based mainly on travel writing, mythologies, policy documents and literary fictions featuring local or metropolitan viewpoints. Such topoi often combine an imagology of Northerness with discourses of arcticity, winterliness, Nordicity etc. This paper sets out to map images of northernness in postcolonial migrant literature featuring viewpoints originating from the global ”South”, examining a number of fictional or autobiographical public narratives written by migrants to Norway arriving in Norway as children or young adults, including books by Amal Aden, Maria Amelie, Romeo Gill, and Sara Azmeh Rasmussen. Tying in to research on changing border concepts in migrant narratives which took place within within the EU FP7 EUBORDERSCAPES project, the paper asks to what degree various topoi of northerness contribute to bordering processes in the texts, and whether these processes in turn produce new images of northernness. Are North and South purely framed in terms of difference in these texts? Is Northernness in migration narratives ascribed to specific cultural values? Are the extended and repeated border crossings these narratives figure connected to specifically Northern territories, as suggested by the title of the collection, Neste stopp Nordpolen: Nye nordmenn – nye stemmer (Next Stop the North Pole: New Norwegians – New Voices, 2005)? Or do images in migration discourse challenge methodological nationalism and eurocentricism? Furthermore I will be asking whether migrants function not only as border crossers and writers, but also as cultural analysts and ethnographers engaged in “research”, “interpretation” and “asking questions about” their new homes? Research, travelling or otherwise, is a form of border-crossing. Like migrants, people who ask questions are subject to typical border-phenomena such as disorientation and liminality, sometimes accompanied by the desire to fix images of others (and the self).

• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2018). Arctic Southerners: Ethnonyms, Languages and Qualities in the Reception of the Austro-Hungarian Polar Expedition in the 1870s and Today. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  While the Austro-Hungarian Polar Expedition of 1872-1874 has often been eclipsed by the expeditions of Franklin, Nansen, Amundsen and Scott within the global imagination, it was widely reported in the newspapers and popular press of the time and has later been the subject of numerous accounts, polar histories, scientific publications, paintings, novels etc. The expedition thus constitutes a major discursive event, lying at the epicentre of an extended media complex spreading out across history and through different forms, genres and planes of discourse. Scenes, characters and narratives have been repeated in different contexts and are thus subject to what Foucault has called “material repeatability”: the ability of the same material signifier to appear in different discourses, often signifying quite different things in each case. The negotiation of cultural identities is an important element in the discourse of Arctic expeditions, as it is in many other types of discourse. The Austro-Hungarian Polar Expedition media complex involves very many cultural identities, along with identities of class, gender, etc. This mirrors the multicultural make-up of both the expedition and of the producers of discourse on the expedition. Here we concentrate on aspects of one part of the complicated structure of cultural identities, namely that involving the seamen, who are various described as coming mostly from a geographical space stretching over part of the NE coast of the Adriatic, including Trieste, the Istrian peninsula, the islands of Kvarner Bay, and the Dalmatian coast and islands. On the return of the expedition in 1874, their identities were articulated through ethnonyms, languages and the ascription of specific qualities; we argue that the medial discourse of the time can be related to negotiations of national identity and changes in language policies within the Austro-Hungarian double monarchy. In the latter half of the 20th Century and the early 21st Century, quite disparate notions of the seamen’s identities have developed in representations of the expedition in book and web media, again within the context of transformed perceptions of national identity.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2018). Border Traumas, Aesthetics and Memory in Migration Literature. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Post-traumatic conditions are the result of the wounding of bodily or psychic borders. As trauma studies has shown, they are framed and often propogated culturally. Crossing territorial borders can cause traumas: the crossing of the border by migrants and others often involves the crossing of their own bodily or psychic borders. This article will examine autobiographies and novels published in Swedish and Norwegian for the way in which they figure the traumatic effects of migrant border crossings. It will apply a border aesthetics approach, bringing the status of aesthetic narratives as borderings of the sensible (cf. Rancière’s concept of the “partage de sensible”) together with the bordering of the sensible which takes place in the fixations, substitutions and blindspots of trauma. It will argue that published narratives of migrant border-crossing introduce a longer, despectacularizing temporality to the border traumas they involve, necessitating investigation of cultural memory in diasporic and multi-generational contexts.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik; Refsum, Christian; Stene-Johansen, Knut & Blasy, Stefanie (2018). How to Live Together. [Journal]. Und. Heft für Alternativen, Widersprüche und Konkretes. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2017). Migrant Utopias, Migrant Dystopias. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bjørnskau, Hilde; Torp, Jonathan; Schimanski, Johan Henrik; Petrogelli, Hege & Brinch, Sara (2017). Fenomenet mange strever med å forklare: Et grensesprengende litterært tegneseriefenomen på 8000 sider, som kun eksisterer på Internett, har blitt en hit. [Internet]. NRK. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2017). Border Ob-scene, Border Non-Scene, Border Scene. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Volsing, Katrine; Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Krogh, Andreas (2017). Homestuck: Internettets svar på Odysseen. [Radio]. DR P1. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Internetfortællingen 'Homestuck' er blevet kaldt både grænsesprængende og eksperimenterende - og så er den helt utrolig lang. Det sidste har blandt ført til sammenligninger med Homers berømte historie om Odysseus. Vi har set nærmere på fænomenet.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2017). Blog: Windows, Mirrors, Lenses: The Trauma of Visible Deportation. Border Criminologies Blog. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2017). Border Utopias, Border Dystopias. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Current political narratives of ‘no borders’ and a ‘big, beautiful wall’ present us with opposed visions (an ‘axiology’) of future border regimes, utopian or dystopian according to the context. How do literary narratives of migration configure the risks and appeals of different future conceptions of bordering? If utopias are, as has been argued, bordered places or enclaves, how can they cater for the mobilities involved in migration? Besides examples of how utopian borders are evoked in fables and poems of migration and utopia (Ahmed, Le Guin, Bachmann) and in science fiction novels (Le Guin), a reading is given of Mohsin Hamid’s recent novel Exit West (2017) as an contemporary example of a global migrant utopia involving utopian borders in a science-fictional fashion. The argument connects theories of utopia/dystopia (Jameson) and borders in national identity theory (Anderson, Bhabha), as well as the concept of the science fictional ‘novum’ (Suvin), in order to in argue that literature can provide a corrective balance to the current spectacularizing discourse of a ‘migration crisis’.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2017). Border Utopias, Border Dystopias. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Current political narratives of ‘no borders’ and a ‘big, beautiful wall’ present us with opposed visions (an ‘axiology’) of future border regimes, utopian or dystopian according to the context. How do literary narratives of migration configure the risks and appeals of different future conceptions of bordering? If utopias are, as has been argued, bordered places or enclaves, how can they cater for the mobilities involved in migration? Besides examples of how utopian borders are evoked in fables and poems of migration and utopia (Ahmed, Le Guin, Bachmann) and in science fiction novels (Le Guin), a reading is given of Mohsin Hamid’s recent novel Exit West (2017) as an contemporary example of a global migrant utopia involving utopian borders in a science-fictional fashion. The argument connects theories of utopia/dystopia (Jameson) and borders in national identity theory (Anderson, Bhabha), as well as the concept of the science fictional ‘novum’ (Suvin), in order to in argue that literature can provide a corrective balance to the current spectacularizing discourse of a ‘migration crisis’.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2017). New Insight into Topical Phenomena from Multidisciplinary Border Studies. [Journal]. uef.fi. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  UEF’s long-standing and internationally recognised research expertise in the field of border studies attracts many leading scholars to the university, also from outside Finland's borders. One of them is Professor of Comparative Literature Johan Schimanski from the University of Oslo.

• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2017). The Museum of Transnational Literature. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2017). The Museum of Transnational Literature. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2017). Uses of the Arctic: Resources and Discourses. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Buset, Pål; Riley, Jon Erik; Mathisen, Werner Christie; Herrman, Bjørn Alex; Auklend, Morten & Haug, Hallvard [Vis alle 7 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2017). Vår fagre nye verden: To gamle framtidsskildringer minner mistenkelig om vår samtid. Kan science fiction påvirke historiens gang? [Journal]. Vårt land. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2017). Trauma in Narratives of Border-Crossing. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2017). The Border Aesthetics of Trauma in Migration Narratives. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Nesby, Linda; McGowan, Jérémie; Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Wolfe, Stephen (2017). Border Aesthetics Book Launch. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  BOOK LAUNCH AT NORDNORSK KUNSTMUSEUM Johan Schimanski and Stephen F. Wolfe, eds. Border Aesthetics: Concepts and Intersections. New York: Berghahn, 2017. Welcoming remarks by JÉRÉMIE MICHAEL MCGOWAN (Director of the Nordnorsk kunstmuseum) and LINDA NESBY (Scandinavian literature, UiT) Talk by JOPI NYMAN (Professor of English Literature, University of Eastern Finland): “Borders and Narratives of Im/Mobility” Short presentations of the Border Aesthetics project and book by Johan Schimanski and Stephen Wolfe

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2017). Border Traumas, Aesthetics and Memory: Photographs in Norwegian and Swedish Migration Literature. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Post-traumatic conditions are the result of the wounding of bodily or psychic borders. As trauma studies has shown, they are framed and often propogated culturally. Crossing territorial borders can cause traumas: the crossing of the border by migrants and others often involves the crossing of their own bodily or psychic borders. This article will examine autobiographies and novels published in Swedish and Norwegian for the way in which they figure the traumatic effects of migrant border crossings. It will apply a border aesthetics approach, bringing the status of aesthetic narratives as political borderings of the sensible (cf. Rancière’s concept of the “partage de sensible”) together with the bordering of the sensible which takes place in the fixations, substitutions and blindspots of trauma. It will argue that published narratives of migrant border-crossing introduce a longer, despectacularizing temporality to the traumas they involve, necessitating investigation of cultural memory in diasporic and multi-generational contexts. Taking as its departure point the use of photography and photographs in Roda Ahmed’s Norwegian tale of coming of age in the Somali diaspora, Forberedelsen (2008; The Preparation), Johannes Anyuru’s Swedish lyrical retelling of a father’s story of migration from Uganda in En Storm kom från paradiset (2013; A Storm Blew in From Paradise, 2015), and Jonas Hasan Khemiri’s complex metafiction about a Tunisian father in Montecore: En unik tiger (2006; Montecore: The Silence of the Tiger, 2011), the lecture argues that these constitute both umbilical border objects and traumatic borderings of the in/visible and the non-visible. Reference is made to theories of the temporalities of photography and trauma, asking how the novels make their way around the neurotic fixity of the traumatic image as a symptom of the unnarratable, along with related affective states such as nostalgia, melancholy and hysteria. Inspired by the allusion in Anyuru’s title, the use of photographs in these novels is compared to Walter Benjamin’s traumatized use of images in “Theses on a Philosophy of History” (1968 [1950]).

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2017). Traumatic Figurations of Border-Crossing in Migrant Literature. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Using the same text as the lecture, Johannes Anyuru’s 2012 novel En Storm kom från paradiset (A Storm Blew in From Paradise/Ein Sturm wehte vom Paradiese her), as its departure point, the seminar will explore the traumatic aspects of bordering and border-crossing and investigate conceptions of trauma and memory as borders. Processes of trauma (the piercing and thus crossing of physical or psychical borders to the self) and traumatization (the inability to cross epistemological boundaries to the traumatic event) bear formal similarities to border-crossing narratives, especially where the status of the event of trauma/border-crossing and repetition/dissemination over time are concerned. Moreover, recent work on ‘in/visibility’ (and ‘in/audibility’) in migrant borderscapes, inspired by Arendt and Rancière, suggest that border trauma will have a central role to play figuring the ‘sense-ability’ of various others in many narratives, parallell with other figurations such as border spectacle and border surveillance. In interpreting the novel, emphasis will be placed on the interplay of narrative (the audible) and image (the visible) in the tracing of trauma, inspired by Unni Langås’ readings of photography, phototextuality and ekphrasis in trauma literature.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2017). Border Figurations in Migration Literature: A Border Poetics Approach. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Johannes Anyuru’s 2012 novel En Storm kom från paradiset (A Storm Blew in From Paradise/ Ein Sturm wehte vom Paradiese her) describes the labyrinthical journey from Uganda to Sweden undertaken by the author’s father. Using this biographical fiction as a departure point, I will be examining how a short scenic description placed at the very beginning of the novel encapsulates a whole border landscape or borderscape. The scene can be analyzed as a border crossing on different scales (Tanzania-Kenya, Uganda-Sweden, Africa-Europe) and surfaces (topographical, symbolic, epistemological, temporal and textual), using the methods of border poetics. The analysis can then be used to isolate a series of central rhetorical and narrative figurations of the border. These analyses around a single example shed light on the ongoing border turn in literary and cultural studies, and how humanities-orientated border theory and social science-orientated border studies can learn from each other. Border figurations in fiction and in autobiographical narratives about migration and cultural crossings are keys to understanding how different conceptions of the border enter into exchange across discourses. My reading of Anyuru’s text takes place against the background of research on border figurations in selected migration narratives published in Norwegian (Nasim Karim, Romeo Gill, Roda Ahmed, Maria Amelie, Amal Aden og Sara Azmeh Rasmussen) together with novels by Swedish authors such as Johannes Anyuru og Jonas Hassan Khemiri. The specific figurations shed light on the role of literacy and Bildung in the journeys of both migrants and readers.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2017). Grenzen, Arktis, Schriftstellermuseen. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2016). Forbudt kjærlighet. Grenseoverskridelser i Romeo Gill og Roda Ahmed. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2016). Border Figurations in Migration Literature. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2016). Reading and Writing: Working inside/outside the Literary Field. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Stene-Johansen, Knut; Refsum, Christian & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2016). "Hvordan leve sammen. Roland Barthes og fantasien om et idiorytmisk liv". I Stene-Johansen, Knut; Refsum, Christian & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (Red.), Å leve sammen. Roland Barthes, individet og fellesskapet. Spartacus. ISSN 9788230401781. s. 11–22. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2016). Figuration in Migration Narratives: Despectacularizing the Border Crisis. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2016). Arctic Literature – Creating the Arctic Story. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik; Kvistad, Erika Johanna & Wiedlocha, Julia (2016). Feminisme og Fantastikk. En samtale om Angela Carter og Helen Oyeyemi. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2016). Visibility and Invisibility in Recent Published Migrant Narratives in Norwegian. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Contemporary published migrant narratives in Norwegian are narratives of migrant experience which have been introduced into the public sphere and are both adapted to and adapt hegemonic borderscapes. Such narratives help to counter the focus on crisis in bordering policy and spectacle. They often present the process of entering into a public sphere whose aesthetic regime is both literary and political as part of a border-crossing extending through the borderscape from the original topographical border-crossing into Norway to the point of writing. Coming to Norway is also coming to writing or at least coming to a new form of writing. This paper examines two recent (2015) books by already established migrant writers in Norway, both positioned more as witnesses, polemicists and documentarists writing under pseudonyms than as literary authors. Amal Aden’s Jacayl er kjærlighet på Somali: En fortelling (”Jacayl is love in Somali: A story”) is a step into the world of fiction, written together with a literary author, Håvard Syvertsen. As in earlier books, this novel focuses on repressive family structures in Somali society in Somalia or in the diaspora. However, it also subtly makes visible the fate of boat migrants crossing the Mediterranean. Marie Amelie’s Takk (”Thank you”) is a sequel to her story of her stay as an illegal migrant in Norway, Ulovlig norsk (”Illegally Norwegian”, 2010). The previous book led to her arrest and deportation, which are described here along with public protests, a change in immigration law (known as ”lex amelie”) and the granting of a legal stay permit. The sequel attempts to negotiate her sense of unease at being a spectacular representative of a large number of unknown illegals, partly by making visible other deportees met at the Trandum deportation prison (a ”camp”) situated by Oslo airport. The paper argues that in both books, migrant authors with an access to the Norwegian public sphere attempt to make visible other, invisible migrants, revealing at the same time different strategies of negotiating the hegemonic borderscape.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2016). Seasons of Migration to the North: Northern Discourses in Published Migrant Narratives in Norwegian. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Research on images of the North has established a repertoire of images based mainly on travel writing, mythologies, policy documents and literary fictions featuring local or metropolitan viewpoints. Such topoi often combine northern discourses with discourses of arcticity, winterliness, Nordicity etc. This paper sets out to map images of northernness in postcolonial migrant literature featuring viewpoints originating from the global ”South”, examining a number of fictional or autobiographical public narratives written by migrants to Norway arriving in Norway as children or young adults, including books by Amal Aden, Maria Amelie, Romeo Gill, and Sara Azmeh Rasmussen. Tying in to ongoing research on changing border concepts in migrant narratives within the EU FP7 EUBORDERSCAPES project, the paper asks to what degree various topoi of northerness contribute to bordering processes in the texts, and whether these processes in turn produce new images of northernness. Are North and South purely framed in terms of difference? Is Northernness ascribed to specific cultural values? Are the extended and repeated border crossings these narratives figure connected to specifically Northern territories, as suggested by the title of the collection, Neste stopp Nordpolen: Nye nordmenn – nye stemmer (Next Stop the North Pole: New Norwegians – New Voices, 2005)?

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2016). Blog: What is a Border Figure? Border Culture. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2016). Å vandre inn i (og ut av) litteraturen. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Parallelt med den romlige vendingen i kultur- og litteraturvitenskapene har vi sett en økende interesse for det som skjer på kantene, på grensene, på de steder der symbolske, topografiske og tekstuelle enheter både defineres og forstyrres. Periferien har blitt til sentrum, og særlig innenfor postkoloniale og andre kulturpoetiske tilnærminger til litteratur har personer som lever på eller krysser grenser blitt til hovedpersoner og fokuset har vært på mellomrom, hybride rom og tredje rom. Grenseorienterte analyser av litteraturen har florert. Utfordringene kommer nå fra to kanter. På den ene siden har fokuset på rom og identitet gjort at grenselesninger ofte har falt tilbake på de motiviske bestanddelene i teksten: altså på setting og personer, og på topografiske og symbolske grenser. Dette betyr at det ofte gjenstår å spørre hvordan grensene til de presentasjonsformer som brukes i litterære tekster – tekstens kanter og overganger mellom fortellerformer, sjangre, stiler, virkelighet/fiksjon osv. – innvirker på forståelsen av grenser og av teksten det gjelder. På den andre siden skjer det en rask teoretiske utviklingen innenfor mer samfunnsvitenskapelige grensestudier. Hvordan kan forskningen på litterære grenser, både i tekstenes verdener og i deres stilistiske former, ta innover seg nye begrep fra dette feltet, som f.eks. b/ordering og borderscapes? Jeg skal innom to forskningsområder for å undersøke disse utfordringer videre: migrasjonslitteratur og arktiske diskurser. Begge kan vanskelig tenkes uten tverrvitenskapelige innslag: de krysser grensene både ut av og inn i litteraturen, og dermed tekstuelle grenser. Arbeid med migrasjonslitteratur kan kartlegge grensefigurer (altså ”figurer” i retorisk betydning) i litterære tekster som nøkler for å forstå historiske endringer i grensebegreper på mer allmenne kulturelle, sosiale og politiske plan. Arbeid med historiske arktiske diskurser kan undersøke overgangene mellom aktiviteter i Arktis, det medialiserte Arktis og det litterariserte Arktis – også i motsatt retning. Jeg argumenterer her for at grensene som utgjøres av litteraturen som presentasjonsform i seg selv må være gjenstand for historiske forandringer og for forstyrrelser. Samtidig gir borderscape-begrepet en antydning om at litteraturens formelle grenser virker inn i et metaforisk landskap sammen med andre typer grenser. Innvandringsfortellinger kommer gjerne til et punkt der selve skriften blir til en del av de territoriale og kulturelle grensepasseringene tekstene tematiserer. Litterære grenselesninger må ta innover seg at grenseflater vikles inn i hverandre og selve skillet mellom grenser i det motiviske og i presentasjonsformen åpner for gråsoner og mellomrom.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2016). Innlegg på sluttpanel, "Är litteraturvetenskapen gränsöverskridande?". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2016). Reading from the Border: Implications for Literary Studies. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik; Smaadal, Camilla & Nævra, Arne (2016). Verdenskjent bilde: Symbol på motstridende verdier. [Journal]. Apollon : Forskningsmagasin for Universitetet i Oslo. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2016). Crossing the Borders between Languages: Narrative Uses of Multilingualism in Swedish and Norwegian Migration Literature. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Jonas Hassan Khemiri’s 2003 breakthrough as a novelist, Ett öga rött, was admired for its use of creolized Swedish dialect used by suburban youth with various migrant backgrounds. In his metafictional second novel, Montecore: En unik tiger, the author-narrator receives e-mails from a friend of his Tunisian father written in rhetorically colourful, grammatically incorrect Swedish. In Johannes Anyuru’s En storm kom från paradiset, multilingualism is a central motif in the story of his father’s convoluted journey from Uganda to Sweden, rather than a stylistic strategy. While novelistic discourse in creolized suburban youth dialect also exists in Norwegian (Maria Navarro Skaranger’s Alle utlendinger har lukka gardiner), most novels and fictionalized autobiographies by second and 1.5 generation migrants in Norway isolate multilingualism in the textual discourse to highly symbolic uses expressing cultural difference. However, in these texts multilingualism both appears as a motif and underlies the wider performative act of border-crossing culminating in writing texts in Norwegian. Using examples from this material, I will be using theoretical developments in transdisciplinary border studies to argue that multilingualism, code-switching, creolization, language-learning, translation and ”rudimentariness” (Mireille Rosello) as motifs and as discursive strategies in migration literature can be positioned as figurations of extended and labyrinthal border crossings on the entangled planes – topographical, epistemological, temporal, symbolic and textual – of the various ”borderscapes” (Chiara Brambilla and others) involved. I will be asking why different texts chose to limit multilingualism to the level of story, or to isolated cases of code-switching, while others use it as a stylistic strategy on the level of textual discourse; seeking reasons not only in personal histories and authorial creativity, but also in the ways in which migration literature is ascribed value in specific contexts.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik; Körber, Lill-Ann; Kukkonen, Karin & Espiñeira, Keina (2016). Are Borders Fictions? A film showing and a conversation. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Meet film-maker and researcher, Keina Espiñeira, along with three literary scholars working with borders, fiction and migration, to discuss borders in literature and film. The Color of the Sea: A Filmic Border Experience in Ceuta, directed by Keina Espiñeira, will be shown and afterwards there will be a debate. See trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgCTlQiwMMc - How do novels and films present borders in this age of global contact and migration? - Where is the border between reality and fiction when migrants and others cross borders? - How do we represent migrant experience in an ethical way? The movie has been nominated for the 2016 European Short Film Awards and is made within the framework of a major EU research project on borders, EUBORDERSCAPES. Participants: Keina Espiñeira (Spain) is a scholar and filmmaker. Her artistic practice is strongly research oriented and involves fieldwork from a multidisciplinary approach. Borders have a pivotal role in her work. Lill-Ann Körber (Oslo/Berlin) is a scholar of Scandinavian Studies at the Universities of Oslo and Bergen with a primary interest in the colonial history of the Nordic countries and their postcolonial relationships with Africa, the Caribbean, and the North Atlantic. Karin Kukkonen (Oslo) is a scholar of comparative literature with a particular interest in the constant negotiation of the boundaries between literature and life, as stories captivate the imagination of their readers. Johan Schimanski (Oslo) is scholar of comparative literature at the Universities of Oslo and of Eastern Finland, researching on borders in literature, Arctic literature and literary exhibitions.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2016). Arktisk science fiction. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2016). Crossing the Borders between Languages: Narrative Uses of Multilingualism in Swedish and Norwegian Migration Literature. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Spring, Ulrike (2016). About the research project TRAUM – Transforming Author Museums. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Spring, Ulrike (2016). Litteraturmuseum i Europa i eit kritisk-teoretisk perspektiv. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2016). Grenser i migrasjonslitteratur. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Professor Johan Schimanski fra Universitetet i Oslo holder foredrag om grensens betydning og hvordan humanioras border theory og samfunnsvitenskapens border studies kan lære av hverandre. Han tar utgangspunkt i den svenske forfatteren Johannes Anyurus roman En storm kom från paradiset (2012). Romanen handler om en labyrintisk reise fra Uganda til Sverige, med grensepasseringer i flere dimensjoner og på flere nivåer. Med utgangspunkt i såkalt grensepoetikk, isoleres retoriske og narrative framstillinger av grensen. Schimanski berører også norske eksempler som Nasim Karim, Romeo Gill, Roda Ahmed, Marie Amalie, Amal Aden og Sara Azmeh Rasmussen. Ut fra disse inviterer han til samtale om rollen til literacy i forståelsen av migrasjonsreiser og leserreiser.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik; Crowley, Cornelius & Smith, Matthew (2016). Table ronde/Roundtable. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2015). Grensens litteratur. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  På 1990-tallet virket ikke grenser relevante mer. Berlinmuren hadde fallt, en trengte ikke lenger å vise pass når en reiste på kontinentet, og vi var på vei inn i globaliseringstidsalder der alt skulle handle om flyt. I dag virker denne tiden som en fremmed verden: farlige og dødsbringende grenser er gjenstand for mediaoppmerksomheten, det bygges murer og gjerder på grenser som aldri før, grensekontrollen har spredt seg inn i urbane rom og den digitale sfæren, grenser virker allestedsnærværende. Samtidig presenteres vi for en stigende antall litterære og filmatiske skildringer av grenser. Hvilken betydning har grensens litteratur og grensens estetikk? Kan litteratur, film og andre kunstarter bidra til å endre våre grensebegrep?

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Spring, Ulrike (2015). Buchpräsentation: Passagiere des Eises. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Zu diesem etwas anderen Literarischen Salon kommen die Historikerin Ulrike Spring von der Hochschule Sogn og Fjordane und der Literaturwissenschaftler Johan Schimanski von der Universität Oslo und präsentieren ihr Buch Passagiere des Eises, Polarhelden und arktische Dis- kurse 1874. Das Buch hat die österreichisch-ungarische Nordpolexpedition (1872-1874) zum Thema und betrachtet diese unter einem kulturwissenschaftlichen Blickpunkt. Die Polarfahrer erregten europaweit beträchtliche mediale Aufmerksamkeit, und nicht zuletzt warf die Expedition we- sentliche soziale, politische und kulturelle Fragen auf.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Brøndbo, Stig (2015). Polarhelten som gikk glipp av berømmelsen. [Internet]. forskning.no. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Intervju med utgångspunkt i Johan Schimanski og Ulrike Spring, Passagiere des Eises (2015).

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Brøndbo, Stig (2015). Polarhelten gikk glipp av berømmelsen. [Internet]. uit.no. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Intervju med utgångspunkt i Johan Schimanski og Ulrike Spring, Passagiere des Eises (2015).

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2015). Closing Statement: Reading the Future North. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2015). Borders between the Arctic and Central Europe. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik; Helset, Nora; Vallestad, Marie & Brenno, Anders (2015). Vampirer og gotikk i litteraturen. [Radio]. Radio Nova. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Meknas, Dana (2015). Graver i ishavshistorien. [Journal]. iTromsø. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Intervju med utgångspunkt i Johan Schimanski og Ulrike Spring, Passagiere des Eises (2015).

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2015). Can Border Narratives Change Public Conceptions of Borders? The Norwegian–Somali Borderscape in Literature, Public Debate and Knowledge Production. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Building on previous work tracing the narrative and rhetorical production of border concepts in novels and autobiographical texts which address the Somali diaspora experience in Norway, this paper assesses the impact of such narratives on bordering and borderscaping processes in the public sphere. By situating book publications by Amal Aden and Roda Ahmed in a broader field of public discourse including book reviews, social media, immigration debates and research dissemination, the paper compares the borderscape produced in the texts themselves with the borderscapes resulting from their publication. Novels and published autobiographies can be seen as media events subject to mediation and remediation processes, or in an previous paradigm as texts with receptions involving specific horizons of expectation and genre protocolls. The two books which the paper takes as examples are both by women who were born in Somalia, but grew up in Norway. Roda Ahmed’s novel Forberedelsen (The Preparation, 2008) and the autobiography of the pseudonymous Amal Aden Mitt drøm om frihet (My Dream of Freedom, 2009). Both involve various kinds of topographical border crossings between Somalia and Norway or between Norwegian and British parts of the Somali diaspora, along with various symbolic, temporal, medial and epistemological border crossings. Along with major narrative border configurations concerning liberation and captivity, both present a repertoire of different border metaphors, each implying different conceptions of the border.In this paper, the focus will lie on how this repertoire compares with that found in the public reception of each book. Both books have been followed by newspaper reviews, book blog entries, social media discussions, library recommendations, public debates, and mass media interviews in which the metaphorical border landscapes in the texts themselves are remediated and negotiated. Both must be read against a background of public debate on immigration and the production of research-based documentary books, academic studies and teaching materials on immigrant cultures and the Somali diaspora in Norway. Aden has been an important voice in the public sphere, publishing books on questions related to immigration, writing newspaper columns, giving talks, etc. The paper will use discourse analyse with a focus on border concepts in the form of rhetorical figures (e.g. metaphors) and narrative configurations as ”nodal points” thus allow for comparisons which reveal and suggest ways in which literary and biographical narratives affect public attitudes to borders and also border policies.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2015). Blog: Borders, Policy and Creativity. Border Culture. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2015). How to involve the humanities in interdisciplinary research projects: experience with the EU framework programme. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2015). Reisen til Norge: Generasjon 1,5 forteller. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2015). Current research on borders and on the Arctic; introduction to a documentary with Nadine Gordimer. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2015). Blogg: Arktisk luft. Forskning.no. ISSN 1891-635X. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2015). Blogg: Arktisk luft. Krohnargument.no. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik; Spring, Ulrike & Braunsperger, Gudrun (2015). Dimensionen - die Welt der Wissenschaft: Pioniere der Arktis. Der mediale Nachhall der österreichisch-ungarischen Nordpolexpedition. [Radio]. ORF Ö1 (Österreichischer Rundfunk, Radio Österreich 1). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Im Sommer des Jahres 1872 brach die "Admiral Tegetthoff", ein Expeditionsschiff unter der Leitung der von Carl Weyprecht und Julius Payer ins nördliche Eismeer auf, um die Durchfahrt der bislang unbekannten Nordostpassage, der Strecke von Europa nach Ostasien, zu erkunden. Wenige Tage nach der Abfahrt blieb das Schiff westlich von Nowaja Semlja im Packeis stecken und wurde nach Nordwesten in bis dato unbekannte Polarregionen abgetrieben. Man stieß auf Land, erkundete und kartierte es und benannte es mit Verweis auf die Herkunft des österreich-ungarischen Entdeckertruppe "Franz-Josef-Land". Im Frühjahr 1874 entschloss sich die Expeditionsleitung schließlich, das Schiff im Eis zurückzulassen: Auf abenteuerlichem Weg gelang die Rückkehr nach Europa: Die 24-köpfige Mannschaft hatte nur einen Todesfall zu beklagen. Die Rückfahrt von der norwegischen Küste über Hamburg nach Wien wurde zum Medienereignis, die Ankunft in Wien blieb wochenlang im Mittelpunkt sozialer, politischer und kultureller Aufmerksamkeit. Die Rezeption dieses Ereignisses im nationalen und internationalen Diskurs erschließt ein Stück europäischer Kulturgeschichte.

• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2015). Blogg: Polarforskning i demokratiseringens tjeneste. Krohnargument.no. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2015). Blogg: Når begynte vi å tenke økologisk om Arktis? Krohnargument.no. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Øksdal, Alf Tore (2015). Polarekspedisjonen som begeistret Europa. [Internet]. UiO. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Intervju med utgångspunkt i Johan Schimanski og Ulrike Spring, Passagiere des Eises (2015).

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2015). Playing the Arctic: Gender and Modernity in Arthur Ransome’s Winter Holiday. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2015). Blogg: Isbjørn og boiled beef: 1800-tallets polarmat. Forskning.no. ISSN 1891-635X. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Spring, Ulrike (2015). Blogg: Hvorfor ble kvinnene hjemme? Forskning.no. ISSN 1891-635X. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2015). Krensens estestikk. Kuiper. ISSN 0809-8212. 2015(1), s. 32–39. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Spring, Ulrike (2015). Blogg: Når begynte en å tenke økologisk om Arktis? Forskning.no. ISSN 1891-635X. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Spring, Ulrike (2015). Buchpräsentation: Passagiere des Eises. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Spring, Ulrike (2015). Blogg: Polarforskning i demokratiseringens tjeneste. Forskning.no. ISSN 1891-635X. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2015). Disrupting Nordic Borders: Postcolonial Border Concepts in Contemporary Swedish Migrant Fiction. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Descriptions of territorial and symbolic borders in migrant fiction presumably provide keys to understanding shifting border concepts in the current global situation. This paper will examine border tropes and narratives of border-crossing in a selection of well-received Swedish novels of migration and diasporic identities: Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s Montecore: en unik tiger, 2006 (translated as Montecore: The Silence of the Tiger, 2011), Johannes Anyuru’s En storm kom från paradiset (2012) and Sami Said’s Väldigt sällan fin (2012). All three novels articulate an African-European borderscape, interrupting their Swedish frameworks by circling around a temporal border, the post- in postcolonial, and performing acts of diasporic memory. A short analysis of border concepts within postcolonialist discourse is followed by a closer examination of border tropes and narratives of territorial border-crossings in the three novels, with a focus on these contemporary Swedish negotiations of postcolonial borderings and the way in which they can be connected to aesthetic and affective values.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2015). The Arctic Imagination. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2015). Changing Borders in Public Immigrant and Diaspora Narratives in Norwegian. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2015). Weather and Entropy in the Imagined Arctic: Arthur Ransome’s Winter Holiday. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2015). Blogg: Hvem oppdaget Frans Josefs land? Krohnargument.no. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik & Spring, Ulrike (2015). Blogg: Hvem oppdaget Frans Josefs land? Forskning.no. ISSN 1891-635X. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2015). Science fictions arktiske historie. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Arktis har i lang tid vært et utilgjengelig sted, som en annen planet, eller et sted som ville bare kunne utforskes i framtiden, et sted for forestillinger og begjær, fremmed og skremmende, eller hvem vet? — kanskje et utopisk sted. Det er ikke rart at mye sf bruker Arktis som setting eller som inspirasjon. Det er nok å nevne Frankenstein, Jules Verne, The Left Hand of Darkness, eller Superman, men i tillegg kommer teorier om paradisiske øyer, åpne hav, eller en hul jordklode, samt de senere årenes CliFi. Hva kan sf fortelle oss om Arktis? Hva kan Arktis fortelle oss om sf?

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2014). Border Figures and Border Landscapes in Published Immigrant Narratives in Norway and Sweden. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2014). Hvorfor humanistisk forskning om Arktis? En kommentar til Travels in the North. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2014). Nordpolen i Wien: Den østerriksk-ungarske polarekspedisjonen (1872-1874) i karikaturtegninger. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2014). “Nordpolstilen”: Wien i Arktis, 1874. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2014). Litteratur og grenser. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan (2014). Steam & Furs. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Austro-Hungarians in the Arctic 1874: proto-steampunk Jules Verne is one of the most-read authors in Europe and news reaches Vienna of the return of the Austro- Hungarian Arctic expedition after two years in the Arctic. Their triumphant journey through Norway, Sweden, Germany, Vienna and onwards to the farthest reaches of the Austro-Hungarian double monarchy is made possible by the reality of steam power, involving even the opening of a railway line from Pålsboda to Finspång. Journalists, authors, illustrators and caricaturists compete to produce the most fantastic imaginative images of their journey, including a novel-length satire in Hungarian – inspired by Jules Verne. Is the Arctic a place in which fur-costumed imperial heroes enter a primitive world, or is it the future? Ulrike Spring and Johan Schimanski’s book on the expedition and its reception will appear later this year.

• Schimanski, Johan (2014). Updating our nightmares beyond 1984 panel discussion. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2014). Liminal spaces of migration and writing: Marie Amelie’s Ulovlig norsk. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This paper is based on research on border concepts in migrant literature within a work package on ”Border Crossing and Cultural Production” in the research project EUBORDERSCAPES. The paper explores the possibility of using different concepts of liminality to identify operative border concepts in a migrant narratives published in Norwegian, both on the plane of the territorial border crossings described in these narrative, and on the border-crossings from private to public, from experience to literature, constituted by this publication. Maria Amelie’s Ulovlig norsk (”Illegally Norwegian”, 2010) tells the temporally clearly delimited story of the pseudonymous Russian (North-Ossetian) author while living without papers in Norway, from 2003 to the publication of the book. On publication, the author became a cause célèbre: She was arrested outside a public speaking engagement, underwent trials, became the focus of controversy and public demonstrations, was deported and then readmitted to Norway after a change of rules known as ”Lex Amelie”. A reading of border figures in the book, a testimonial, raises questions on the function of liminal and liminoid spaces, individual and societal transitions, and published literature as a liminal or liminoid space.

• Schimanski, Johan (2014). Constructing imagery, mythologies of the Arctic. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Wolfe, Stephen (2014). Project Report: The Border Aesthetics Project (2010-2013). La Frontera: Association for Borderlands Studies Newsletter. 34(2), s. 17–18. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2014). Partnerskap - noe å satse på? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2014). Grensefigurer i publisette innvandrerfortellinger på norsk. En litteraturviter snakker til samfunnsvitere. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2014). Changing Border Concepts in Published Immigrant Narratives in Norway and Sweden. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This paper will provide a comparative and contrapuntual analysis of border concepts in cultural production, using Norwegian and Swedish published immigrant narratives as examples. A new generation of immigrant community writers who have spent parts or the whole of their childhoods in Norway have acquired a competence in Norwegian public debate and literary culture. Novels, short stories, published anonymized letters, fictionalized, autobiographies, fictionalized life-stories constitute a corpus of publically visible representations of migrant cultures which cross the symbolic border from private experience to the public sphere. The paper will ask why these narratives address transnational mobility and emphasize territorial border crossings in a more explicit way than in earlier immigrant literature in the English-speaking sphere. Grounding interpretations of bordering in the cultural sphere involves correlating the performative force of aesthetic works in a social context to an analysis of content and form. In narrative texts, border concepts are performed through various rhetorical figures and narratives. Close border poetics readings result in a repertoire of border figures, keys to the text's negotiation of border concepts. The paper will compare novels and fictionalized autobiographies by with Somali (Amal Aden, Roda Ahmed), Subcontinental (Nasim Karim, Romeo Gill) and Caucasian (Marie Amalie) backgrounds. While such narratives in Norway cater to disparate desires for knowledge, identification, debate, and aesthetic experience, this paper will ask why none apply the postmodernist, metafictional and magical realist strategies typical of the international migrant literature canon, refering contrapuntually to Swedish examples (Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Enel Melberg).

• Schimanski, Johan (2014). Korleis arbeide fram ein god EU-søknad? Korleis gå fram og kva er dei viktigast suksessfaktorane? Korleis kan fleire frå IKL nå opp med slike søknader? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2014). Zygmunt Bauman's Liquid Modernity and the Arctic. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2014). Playing the Arctic: Modernity and Gender in Arthur Ransome’s Winter Holiday. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Arthur Ransome, an author and journalist who covered and who had close ties to Bohemian London before WWI and then to the Russian Revolution, is most famous for his series of twelve much-read children’s books known as the ”Swallows and Amazons” series (1930-1947). Unlike the rest of the books, Winter Holiday (1933) does not take place on moving, but on frozen water. Himself inspired by Nansen’s accounts of the crossing of Greenland and the Fram expedition, Ransome allows his children protagonists to transform the Lake District lake on which they spend their holidays into the scene of an Arctic expedition. Ransome’s book invites contextual readings connecting the book to the discursive and political developments which accompanied his own career as a writer, along the line of Heidi Hansson’s analysis (2011) of A. A. Milne’s story of Winnie-the-Pooh’s ‘expotition’ to the North Pole as a productive model. Where Ransome is concerned, it seems natural to place emphasis on the ambivalent handling of imperial discourses in discovery narratives, but also (as Catherine M. Lynch has suggested) on post-WWI transformations in gender roles. Girl protagonists are main agents where both imagining and physical action are involved in Ransome’s books, and Winter Holiday is no exception. The paper poses questions of changing imperial and gendered discourses between the wars as they are negotiated in Arthur Ransome’s fiction about/for children, and how these negotiations can be seen as negotiations of the modern. It examines the motif of fantasy play within fiction – in a sense, fictions within fictions – a recurring motif in Ransome’s books. To what degree does play help create a utopian or heterotopian Arctic modernity in which age and gender hierarchies are barred? Is the play motif/mode in itself a typically modern (ironic? defamiliarizing?) way of dealing with exotic geographies?

• Schimanski, Johan (2014). Border Culture: Aesthetics/Poetics/Literatures. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2013). Borderscaping the Russian-Norwegian Borderline. Chto delat newspaper. 11(35), s. 16–18. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2013). Ellisif Wessel som grensefigur. Litterære og biografiske resepsjoner. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan (2013). Blogg: Kulturhistorie på besøk hos miljøhistorie. Forskning.no. ISSN 1891-635X. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2013). Utdrag av intervjuvideo om Goethes Faust projisert på bakteppe under forestilling. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Wolfe, Stephen (2013). Report on the “Border Aesthetics” conference, University of Tromsø, Tromsø 5–8 September 2012. EUBORDERSCAPES Newsletter. s. 7–8. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2013). Aktuelle perspektiver på Goethes Faust. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan (2013). The Melting Archive: The Arctic and the Archives' Others. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The Arctic is today posed on the cusp of two discourses: one of enviromental conservationism, in which one wishes to keep the Arctic ice in its present state, the other of economic exploitation, producing scenarios of access to trade routes and petrochemical resources. Both come together in the image of the melting ice. The environmental discourse of the Arctic sees the Arctic as an archive of climate change history, of ways of life, and of genetic codes. Its more ecoactivist enunciators use strong images in order to sell their message, thereby giving global access to their symbolic resources and reproducing an economic logic of liquidity, signs as negotiable assets. Economic interests see the opening of the Arctic sea as a way of liquidizing assets in the face of climate change. In our paper we will examine the archaeology of the crisis of Arctic modernity, using connections between the first great modern economic depression beginning in the Panic of 1873, and the Austro-Hungarian Arctic Expedition of 1872-1874. We will trace the origins of modernity within Arctic discourse to three fields, the scientific, the journalistic, and the aesthetic. This will form the basis for our argument concerning the constitutive connections between archival conservation and the liquid modernity, its other which seems to threaten it with destruction.

• Schimanski, Johan (2013). Reading Changing Border Concepts in Published Immigrant Narratives: Nasim Karim and Romeo Gill. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This paper aims to contribute to the formulation of a comparative framework for the analysis of border concepts in cultural production, using immigrant narratives as examples. Grounding interpretations of bordering in the cultural sphere involves correlating the performative force of aesthetic works in a social context to an analysis of content and form. In narrative texts, border concepts are performed through the use of various rhetorical figures for the border, along with the narrative and formal structures of border-crossings. Close border poetics readings result in a repertoire of border figures, keys to the text’s negotiation of border concepts. But what presuppositions about the border concept do such readings imply? Literary postcolonial immigrant narratives in Norway cater to disparate desires for knowledge, identification, debate, and aesthetic experience. A new generation of immigrant community authors who have spent parts or the whole of their childhoods in Norway have acquired a competence in Norwegian literary culture. Novels and autobiographies address transnational mobility and emphasize territorial border crossings. My examples here are novels by the children of subcontinental immigrants: Nasim Karim’s Izzat – For ærens skyld (1996), and Romeo Gill’s Harjeet (2008) and Ung mann i nytt land (2011).

• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2013). Arctic Negotiables: The Panic of 1873 and the Archaeology of Modernity and Modernism. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Wolfe, Stephen (2013). Border | Aesthetics: REPORT: The final conference of the Border Aesthetics research project University of Tromsø, Tromsø. 5‐8 September 2012. La Frontera: Association for Borderlands Studies Newsletter. 33(2), s. 7–9. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2013). WP 10: (Cultural Production) and employing the Borderscapes metaphor. EUBORDERSCAPES Newsletter. s. 5–5. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan (2013). Fra et hav av is til et hav av mennesker: Mottakelsen av den østerriksk-ungarske polarekspedisjonen 1872-1874. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2013). The Bordering of the Sensible: Border Politics and Border Poetics. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Refering to specific literary negotiations of Eastern European border zones and arguing for the need for investigation of imagined borderlands in cultural production, this paper reexamines the theoretical framework of border poetics from the point of view of Jacques Rancière’s exposition of politics and aesthetics. Border poetics is an analytical formation which asks us to be aware of not only of the various effects in the micronarratives of individual border crossings, but also the way in which the work of representation, narrativization, figuration, and aestheticization is integral to both border crossings and to bordering processes in general. It challenges us to connect the political and aesthetic, and this paper examines its theoretical underpinnings by relating it to Rancière’s formulation of the relationship between politics and aesthetics and especially to his conception of the “distribution of the sensible”. A recent negotiation of the Norwegian-Russian borderlands is Cecilie Enger’s novel Himmelstormeren (2007), based on the life of the historical woman Ellisif Wessel (1866-1949), social activist and photographer. The Kafkaesque novel The City & The City (2009), by London author and scholar of international law China Miéville, is a theoretically sophisticated crime noir set in the fictional Central/Eastern European twin cities of Besźel and Ul Qoma, presided over by the mysterious executive force the “Breach”. The paper focuses on the sensible in both cases as it relates to their handling of borders, in Enger through the motif of the photograph and in Miéville through the practice of “unseeing” the other city.

• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2013). Blog: Discourse Meets Environment. Northern Nations, Northern Natures. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2013). Borders of the Arctic in Exploration Narratives: The Austro-Hungarian Polar Expedition 1872-1874. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2013). The Return of a Polar Expedition. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan (2013). Blogg: Fra arktiske diskurser til arktiske moderniteter. Forskning.no. ISSN 1891-635X. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2013). Schönbrunn & Hietzing: Kulturhistorisk tur. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2013). Reading Changing Border Concepts in Published Immigrant Narratives: Roda Ahmed and Amal Aden. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This paper aims to contribute to the formulation of a comparative framework for the analysis of border concepts in cultural production, using as examples two immigrant narratives. To ground interpretations of bordering in the cultural sphere one must correlate an investigation of social actants ¬– i.e. of the performative force of aesthetic works in a social context and their meaning for users and producers – to an analysis of content and form. In narrative texts, border concepts are performed through rhetorical means, i.e. the use of various figures (metaphors, synecdoches etc) for the border, along with narrative and formal structure of border-crossings, in themselves implying border figures. Close border poetics readings result in a repertoire of border figures, keys to the text’s negotiation of border concepts. Literary postcolonial immigrant narratives in Norway can be traced back to the publication of Khalid Hussain’s novel Pakkis in 1986. The publication category expresses disparate desires for knowledge, identification, debate, and aesthetic experience. A new generation of immigrant community authors who have spent parts or the whole of their childhoods in Norway have acquired a competence in Norwegian literary culture. Later books also address transnational mobility and emphasize territorial border crossings. My examples are written by women born in Somalia but growing up partly in Norway, the 2008 novel by Roda Ahmed, Forberedelsen, and the 2009 autobiography by war orphan Amal Aden, Min drøm om frihet. In addition to immanent analysis, extended medial receptions make possible appraisals of the social actants involved.

• Schimanski, Johan & Wolfe, Stephen (2013). Doing Border Aesthetics: Three Examples. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2013). Humaniora, samfunnsvitenskap og grenser. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2013). Representation-Fiction at Borders: Introduction to Discussion. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2013). Blogg: Å minne og gjenskape en polarekspedisjon. Forskning.no. ISSN 1891-635X. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2012). Grensenes gjenkomst. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Grenser er på vei tilbake i den internasjonale arenaen med full fart. Det kan virke som om globaliseringsprofetenes spådommer om en grenseløs verden har mistet all betydning. Fra Tijuana på grensen tilUSAtil Kirkenes på grensen til Russland, fra det dødsbringende havet mellom Libya og Italia til den lovlige lovløsheten på Guantanamo-basen, fra de fjernstyrte dronenes jaktmerker i det nordvestlige Pakistan til den økonomiske krisen i Hellas, fra murbyggingen på Vestbanken til forstedene i Paris: grenser forbindes med mange slags problemstillinger. Samtidig som verden forandrer seg, forandrer våre begrep om grenser seg. Kan nye ideer om hvordan grenser er hjelpe oss i å finne alternative løsninger når det gjelder innvandring, sikkerhet, suverenitet og andre grenserelaterte spørsmål? Kan forskning, kunst og litteratur være måter å forhandle fram nye, mer levelige grensebegrep på? Det viser seg at en måte å skape alternative grensebegrep er å lytte til hva en liten tekst som Franz Kafka skrev under første verdenskrig, ”Husfarens bekymringer”, kan ha å si til oss. Det anbefales å lese denne før samtalen.

• Schimanski, Johan (2012). Disorientation, Unorientation, Post-Orientation. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  When orientation comes from the outside it becomes a symbolic system, imposed by the ”Father”. Rebelling against it, we may suspect that it is inauthentic, a pseudo-orientation. False orientations can be predicated on orientation, and disorientation itself may be part of the same economy. When one discovers that one’s orientation was a pseudo-orientation, one is disorientated, and one feels a need to become reorientated. What can break this economy? Is there an alternative to either reorientation or a repressive ”deorientation”? One such alternative may be a utopian unorientation, where one feels no need for orientation. Another is acceptation of hybrid and ambiguous orientations, a post-orientation. The economy of orientation is part of the formation of our selves as sovereign subjects. Yet the self comes into being, as Althusser’s famous example makes clear, in a moment of disorientation, which he visualizes as a scene where one is hailed by a policeman on the street. Althusser is quick to brush over the theatricality of this scene; we already have established our identities, through the workings of ideology. But what if we acknowledge this moment of disorientation and allow for self-reflexivity from the outset? The fictional cities of China Miéville’s The City & the City (2009) are set in an imaginary Eastern or Central Europe, in a fragmented and multilayered space characterized by displacement and disorientation. Appropriately, it is a theoretically informed novel about police work, and emphasizes the element of disorientation through the generic form of the detective story (false leads, conspiracies behind conspiraceis, etc.). It also sets up a theatre of genre through its clearly constructed disorientation of the reader’s generic expectations with the help of fantasy and science fictional elements. Most strikingly, The City & the City reifies our everyday practices of ignoring certain things which are around us through a science fictional motif or novum, an institutionalized practice of “unseeing” the other cities around one. Paradoxically, it is the seeing which lurks behind unseeing which creates disorientation in the novel, which in turn suggests various ways of glimpsing the possibility of ambigous post-orientations.

• Schimanski, Johan (2012). Liminality and Borders in Literary Aesthetics. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Writing poetics is often an exercise in distinguishing between different categories: elements in the text, parts of the text. The differences between these sometimes explicitly figured as borders and transitions (such as beginnings, plot turns and revelations). In traditional poetics, literary categories are often territorialized in a conceptual landscape and works are subjected to unities. Distinctions are also made between a range of phenomena and their others: good literature and bad literature, originals and imitations, affect and decorum, literature and history, reality and fiction, plausibility and fantasy, poetic language and prosaic language, readers/audiences and texts, the text and its outside, etc. Again, such otherings may be figured as borders of various kinds: absolute divisions, mixings, magnetisms, dialectics, etc. Within these processes of distinctions and borderings, various subject positions are being constructed: authors and their readers, critics, characters, and not least poeticians and their readers. The purpose of this presentation is to examine, in a wide range of writings in traditional and modern poetics, possible border narratives, border figures and liminalities brought into play in such writing. The approach is broadly one taken from border poetics: the acknowledgement of border processes taking place on different surfaces which sometimes join in telling ways. In some poetics for example, relations of power surface between categories and subject positions, especially apparent in the various otherings going on in these texts. Certain categories, including literature itself, are made sovereign over others, authors exercise freedoms (e.g. deus ex machina), etc. In some, such relations are explicitly made into topographical borders, including Plato’s famous admonition to exile all practicioners of literary and aesthetic imitation from his ideal state, or Boileau’s scepticism to rhymesters ”on the other side of the Pyrenees” who in their works break with the unity of time. The question raised – in such cases most clearly – is whether a poetics can be evaluated from its confirm or challenge territorializing and ”container” concepts of borders; whether it allows for liminal states, categories and subject positions.

• Schimanski, Johan (2012). The Austro-Hungarian Polar Expedition and Expedition Doctor Gyula Kepes. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2012). [review of] Also Make the Heavens: Virtual Realities in Science Fiction. Svante Lovén. Skrifter utgivna av Avdelningen för litteratursociologi vid Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen i Uppsala 60, Uppsala 2010. Samlaren: tidsskrift för forskning om svensk och annan nordisk litteratur. ISSN 0348-6133. 133, s. 431–433. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan (2012). Nordpolen som mediebegivenhet i Sentraleuropa. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2012). Grensebegreper og begrepsgrenser. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Øistad, Beate Sletvold; Mortensen, Ellen; Bolsø, Agnes; Rogg, Elisabet & Schimanski, Johan (2012). Forstå samfunnet - studer kjønn! [Internet]. Kilden: Informasjonssenteret for kjønnsforskning. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Berg, Sigrun Høgetveit & Schimanski, Johan (2012). Grenseforsking for 68 millionar kroner. [Internet]. uit.no. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2012). Hva skal en litteraturviter med tegneserier, og hva sier det oss om tegneserier? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Berg, Sigrun Høgetveit (2012). Kva skal litteraturvitarar med teikneseriar? [Internet]. Universitetet i Tromsø. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan (2012). Medialisierung/Verhandlung Arktis/Europa. Die Rückkehr der österreichisch-ungarischen Polarexpedition über Norwegen und Deutschland nach Wien, 1874. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Die Rückkehr der österreichisch-ungarischen Polarexpedition im September 1874 entwickelte sich in der bürgerlichen Zeitungswelt und Festkultur rasch zu einem Medienereignis, über das Bilder der Arktis ebenso wie nationale und lokale Identitäten verhandelt wurden. Die Empfänge und die Medienberichterstattung in Bergen, Hamburg und Wien bilden den Ausgangspunkt für eine Analyse der politischen, medialen und ästhetischen Kulturen der 1870er Jahre.

• Schimanski, Johan; Wintervold, Morten & Hallberg, Anna (2012). Poetisk salong: Anna Hallberg og Morten Wintervold i samtale med Johan Schimanski. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2012). Grensens nett. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Gramnæs, Martin & Schimanski, Johan (2012). Språkdiskusjon utenom det vanlige. [Journal]. Sør-Varanger Avis. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Melodiøs folkemusikk og poetisk diskusjon stod på programmet under litteraturfestivalens første poesisalong

• Schimanski, Johan (2012). En drømmedag med en forsker. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Görling, Reinhold & Schimanski, Johan (2012). Sovereignty. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Görling, Reinhold & Schimanski, Johan (2012). Reading Kafka’s ‘Die Sorge des Hausvaters’ as a Text about Sovereignty, Aesthetics and Borders. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This paper reads Kafka’s short text ‘Die Sorge des Hausvaters’ (‘The Cares of a Family Man’) as a partly allegorical text about sovereignty, aesthetics and borders. We use Kafka’s text as an entry point, opening up the field of reflection by examining its main motifs. The main figures of the text are the fairly anonymous “Hausvater” (the family man, literally the “House-Father”) and a mysterious toy-like figure, “Odradek”. The Hausvater is by implication the sovereign of the family and the house, a bordered space, where every thing has its place and its meaning. The text tries to positions Odradek through its name which may have Slavic as well as German origins. But as uncertain as these etymologies of its name is its origin in general. For the Hausvater Odradek is a denizen of in-between spaces. It lives in the margins and on the thresholds, moving freely between the inside and the outside, disappears and reappears again. Is it like a migrant crossing the borders of the nation- house? Its interdeterminacy resist the sovereignty of the Hausvater. If the Odradek is a “Sorge” (worry, concern, care) of the Hausvater, does the Hausvater want to get rid of it or look after it? Is it an undeterminable threat? It is even uncertain if it dies. The very form of the Odradek has unclear borders, a “flat star-shaped spool for thread” with some broken threads hanging on to it, a small wooden crossbar and a right-angled rod. Its uselessness it reminds us of the Kantian definition of beauty as being disinterested, but its melancholic aesthetic as a fragment makes sovereign have “Sorge” about it. The Odradek is uncannily similar to the sovereign as being outside the law. What marks off the border and relationship between the sovereign – with its violent phantasm of omnipotence – and the aesthetic? Or is the aesthetic that which mockingly resists such bordering and reveals the sovereign’s fear of death? Who is the Hausvater? Is he the narrator “I” or the generalized “one” or the text? Why these sliding subject positions in relationship to the sovereignity of the narrator and the literary fragment as a performative act? This is not a case study of a Kafka text, but a dialogue with the text asking it what it has to contribute to a discussion of sovereignty, aesthetics and borders.

• Schimanski, Johan (2011). Victor Turner and the Border Fantastic. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2011). Setting the Borders of the Arctic in the Discourse of the Austro-Hungarian Arctic Expedition 1872-1874. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2011). Border Reading Double Vector: The Epistemology of Border-Crossings. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Borders are traces, that is to say, they are a form of writing--and thus they are also texts to be read. We often think of that which is on the other side of the border as something unknown, and the border itself also in some sense unknowable, inviting interpretation. I will here be examining some literary and cinematic narratives in which national borders are crossed for elements of an epistemology of the border. Such narratives often transform crossings into readings, suggesting that these crossings are allegories of the reading of the narrative itself--the reader crossing over into the border text. If border crossings are movements of bodies in space, what do these narratives tell us of the relationship between the reader’s body and the space of the text? What can these narratives tell us about the figurality of community and identity--national affiliation as an act of reading borders? I suggest that narratives of border crossing, like border crossings themselves, are structured spatial around a double vector, sometimes transformed into a swirling confusion of direction, constituting the border zone and its associated identities.

• Schimanski, Johan (2011). Border Aesthetics and Postmodernist Negotiations in the Norwegian-Russian Borderscape. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This paper examines the aesthetic dimension in the remaking of borders and border concepts. In which way do aesthetic works and aestheticization processes become part of the borderscape? To ask such questions is not only to interrogate different historical conceptions of the border, but also different meanings of the word “aesthetic”. The aesthetic can be about the senses: that which connects the spatial and symbolic aspects of every border is precisely the sensual perception of the border. The aesthetic can be about beauty, etc: the border allows for emotional responses (like/dislike etc) and for aesthetic judgements (beautiful, sublime, grotesque, etc). The aesthetic be about art: The border can be connected to artistic cultural production and be subjected to everyday aestheticization. All these aspects of the border create the possibility of ascribing various aesthetic (and ethical) values to the border; however, the border not only elicits aesthetic responses, but is also renegotiated in those responses. The paper explores scenes from two “postmodernist” novels which negotiate the Norwegian-Russian(-Sámi-Finnish-Kven) borderscape, Fowles’ The Magus (1966) and Fløgstad’s Grense Jakobselv (2009), attending to the changing conceptions of borders, the complex layering of historical memory in the Pasvik region, and the specific border metaphors they bring into play. Which aesthetic judgments about the border do these novels make possible? Can aesthetic distancing and its shifting of the visible/invisible create new, perhaps enabling conceptions of the border?

• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2011). Blogg: Arktis eller ikke Arktis? Forskning.no. ISSN 1891-635X. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2011). Presentasjon av artikkelen "A Black Rectangle Labelled 'Polar Night': Imagining the Arctic after the Austro-Hungarian Expedition of 1872-1874". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2011). Reading for Borders. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2011). Introduction: Le Cerf-Volant. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2011). Pronouncing it the Porder: The Ascription of Aesthetic Values to External and Internal National Borders in Frank A. Jenssen, The Salt Bin. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan; Pötzsch, Holger; Thuen, Inger Præsteng & Benjaminsen, Tom (2011). Utforsker grenser. [Journal]. Avisa Tromsø. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Grenser finnes på mange plan, og utforskes også på film. Nå får du sjansen til å se film med forskerblikk på grenseproblematikk.

• Schimanski, Johan (2011). Border Aesthetics and Postmodernist Negotiations in the Norwegian-Russian Borderscape. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2011). The Disorientating Epistemology of the Border. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2011). Elling Carlsen og katolikkene på Nordpolen – eller Frans Josefs Land før Nansen. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2011). Border Aesthetics and Postmodernist Negotiations in the Norwegian-Russian Borderscape. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This paper examines the aesthetic dimension in the remaking of borders and border concepts. It explores scenes from two postmodernist novels - so-called historiographic metafictions - which negotiate the Norwegian-Russian(-Sámi-Finnish) borderscape, Fowles’ The Magus (1966) and Fløgstad’s Grense Jakobselv (2009). In doing so to changing conceptions of borders and aesthetics, the complex layering of historical memory in the Pasvik region, and the specific border figures brought into play. How does aesthetics map into internal and external borderscapes? Which aesthetic judgments about the border do these novels make possible? Can aesthetic distancing and its shifting of the visible/invisible create new, perhaps enabling conceptions of the border? Do bordering processes help create new aesthetical concepts?

• Schimanski, Johan (2011). Disorientating Borders. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  At the border, disorientation may appear. I will here be examining some literary/cinematic narratives featuring national borders, developing on work on the epistemology of borders. Such narratives often transform crossings into readings, suggesting that these crossings are allegories of the reading of the narrative itself – the reader crossing over into the text or the viewer into the screen. If border crossings are movements of bodies in space, what do these narratives tell us of the relationship between the reader’s body and the space of the text? In many of these narratives, the unknowability of the border and its other side is figured through an intrusion of the imaginary and a disorientation, with my focus here being on the latter. But to answer questions about what such narratives can tell us about community and identity – national affiliation and global interpellation as acts of reading borders – we must also ask who or what is disorientated and who does the disorientation: national, migrant or border subjects, protagonists or readers/viewers, the text/film or the border itself?

• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2011). Oscar II’s Lands: Receiving Austro-Hungarian Polar Explorers in Norway and Sweden in 1874. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2011). How National Borders are Created and Negotiated in Interaction with Narrativity, Aesthetics, and Interpretation. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This lecture begins by presenting the borderscape as a concept which allows us to take into account aestheticization processes when addressing borders. It takes as its departure point various literary narratives which negotiate national borders, with the specific questions such borders raise about identification, history and transformation in a world of flows, joins, resistances and exclusions. The lecture aims to create a juncture in which we may pose the question of the performative force of literary borderings and of reading. Which aesthetic judgments about the border do literary texts make possible? What would it mean to deal with the aesthetic as a border phenomenon? How do aesthetical negotiations of the border relate to other fields of evaluation, such as the ontological, epistemological, emotional, ethical, political etc? In order to answer these questions the lecture handles both the border and the aesthetic as contingent concepts suggesting new possibilities, and interrogates the various ascriptions which connect borders, aesthetics, style, affect etc.

• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2011). Welcome on German Soil:: Using an Arctic Expedition to Negotiate National Identities. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2011). Reading for Borders and Aesthetics. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In the workshop we will be reading short texts by Dannie Abse and Yoko Tawada with border themes, looking for different ways in which they involve borders, connect different kinds of borders (national, textual etc) and create different conceptions of borders. What makes a taken border interesting in reading a text? What border crossings are involved in the reading process itself? Can aesthetical concepts help us understand the connection between the borders described in the text and the borders of the text itself? Returns to central theoretical texts by Jacques Derrida, Benedict Anderson and Franco Moretti provide points of access. Participants will be asked to relate to use of border concepts and aesthetics in their own work. Discussion can be in English or Scandinavian, depending on the wishes of the participants.

• Schimanski, Johan (2011). Pronouncing it the Porder: The Ascription of Aesthetic Values to External and Internal National Borders in Frank A. Jenssen, The Salt Pit. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2011). Habsburg Colonialism and the Remedialization of Franz Joseph Land. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Sojtaric, Maja & Schimanski, Johan (2011). Science fiction er død. [Journal]. Labyrint. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2011). Presentasjon av boken Reiser og ekspedisjoner i det litterære Arktis. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Arntzen, Even (2011). Et litteraturfiendtlig UiT? s. 3–3. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  FORESLÅS NEDLAGT: Hvorfor er det så viktig å beholde allmenn litteraturvitenskap på studieprogrammet til Universitetet i Tromsø?

• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2011). Gendered Discourses of Celebration and the Formation of Arctic Heroes. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan (2010). En polarekspedisjon vender hjem: Den østerriksk-ungarske polarekspedisjonen 1872-1874. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2010). Om grenser. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2010). Pronouncing it the porder: The ascription of aesthetic values to external and internal national borders in Frank A. Jenssen, Saltbingen. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Frank A. Jenssen’s Saltbingen (1981; translated as The Salt Pit, 1998), winner of the Vesaas prize, is a piece of often grotesque realism describing events in the life of the Tysfjord Sámi. It deals with many kinds of symbolic borders, first and foremost the social, linguistic and cultural borders between indigenous hunter-gatherer-fisher-farmers and various representatives of state and economic power, between the Tysfjord Sámi and on the one hand Lofoten fishermen and on the other reindeer-herding Sámi. As such it addresses various questions of identity, articulation and representation central to postcolonial theory; a historical novel set from 1955 onwards, it also covers two generations and follows the traces of trauma across temporal boundaries. This paper discusses how the novel loads specifically topographical borders – the border to Sweden and to the East, the borders dividing the world of daily life from submarine or subterraneous underworlds or from the more aetheric world of the mountain tops – with the aesthetics of the gothic and the idyll, and how these aesthetic values overlap with the social and cultural issues mentioned above.

• Schimanski, Johan (2010). Erfaringer med bruk av Twitter i undervisning. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan; Määttä, Jerry & Dahl, Thomas (2010). Samtale om science fiction-fankultur: Skap din egen fremtid nå! Om science fiction-fans og hvordan kulturforbruk kan være kreativt. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2010). Grenser: identitet, estetikk, verdier. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wolfe, Stephen; Schimanski, Johan; Otte, Martha & Høtvedt, Martin (2010). TIFF og universitetet samarbeider om filmhøst: Inviterer til film og grensedebatt. [Journal]. Nordlys. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2010). Pronouncing it the porder: The ascription of aesthetic values to external and internal national borders in Frank A. Jenssen, Saltbingen. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2010). The Reception of the Austro-Hungarian Arctic Expedition in Hamburg, 1874. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2010). Introduction to Fatih Akin, "Im Juli" (2000). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Fatih Akin's In July (original title Im Juli) is a light summer romantic comedy and road movie about the coming-of-age of Daniel, a young maths teacher from Hamburg, played by the indispensable Moritz Bleibtrau. Daniel sets off to find his true love at the Bosporus in Istanbul, crossing national and personal borders on every step of the way through a sun-baked Europe. Scenes in this film on German and Turkish, Western and Eastern identities prove that illegal border crossings can be funny and romantic - in spite of the threat of state violence. How can border crossings be comic? Do we today need border-crossing comedy? Are comedies always about some form of border-crossing? Included in the introduction are comparisons with earlier comic treatments of border-crossing - a 1938 novel by Erich Kästner (filmed in 1943), a phrase in a 1964 poem by Ingeborg Bachmann - and with Akin's main source of inspiration, Shakespeare’s comedies. In July won the audience award at the Tromsø International Film Festival in 2001.

• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2010). Blogg: Forskningsturisme. Forskning.no. ISSN 1891-635X. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2010). Blogg: Koselige isbjørn. Forskning.no. ISSN 1891-635X. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2010). Truth and beauty (or not) of borders. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  While borders may seem erased by globalization, they tend to reappear, often in unexpected places. Borders are multiple traces, a form of writing we have to read. We often think of that which is on the other side of the border as something unknown, and the border itself is also in some sense unknowable, inviting interpretation. The border helps define meaning and truth, and border crossing narratives often transform crossings into readings, suggesting that these crossings are allegories of the reading of the narrative itself--the reader crossing over into the text. Border crossings are movements of bodies in space and the relationship between the reader’s body and the space of the text shares this sense of spatiality. In analysing literary and cinematic (or perhaps any) narratives for elements of an epistemology of the border we are also faced however with an aesthetics of the border. Borders are often aestheticized not only as spaces of narrative conflict, but also as fantastic, romantic, comic, sublime, absurd, or grotesque. Such ascriptions of aesthetic values can help us understand what border crossing narratives tell us about the figurality of community and identity – national affiliation as an act of reading borders. The beauty and ugliness of borders are crucial elements in the politics of some of the most contentious border issues in the world today. Here I will be examining narratives of border crossing which are structured spatially around a double vector, which is transformed into a swirling confusion of direction, constituting a border zone with its epistemology, aesthetics and associated identities.

• Schimanski, Johan (2010). Grensens estetikk. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lindstad, Siri; Schimanski, Johan; Spring, Ulrike; Wærp, Henning Howlid & Gaupseth, Silje (2010). Feltrapport: Til Arktis for å finne seg selv. [Journal]. Forskerforum. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2010). Blogg: Å gjengi karikaturer. Forskning.no. ISSN 1891-635X. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2009). Å krysse grenser, å forhandle mannlighet. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Scott, James (2009). The 2008 European Conference of the Association of Borderland Studies ‘Cultural Production and Negotiation of Border’: Kirkenes, 11-13 September 2008. EUDIMENSIONS Newsletter. s. 8–10. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2009). Sverige tvetydig overfor science fiction [anmeldelse av Jerry Määttä, Raketsommar. Science Fiction i Sverige 1950–1968, Lund: elleströms förlag 2006]. Edda. Nordisk tidsskrift for litteraturforskning. ISSN 0013-0818. 96(2), s. 191–195. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Wolfe, Stephen (2009). Introduction: Cultural Production and Negotiation of Borders. Nordlit. ISSN 0809-1668. s. 5–8. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Wolfe, Stephen (2009). The ABS-Europe Biennale Kirkenes Conference Report: Cultural Production and Negotiation of Borders. La Frontera: Association for Borderlands Studies Newsletter. 29(2), s. 10–14. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lindholm, Audun & Schimanski, Johan (2009). Fra Algernon til Aardvark: Norske science fiction-fanziner på 1970- og 80-tallet. [Journal]. Vagant. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2009). The Theoretical Basis of Border Poetics. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2009). Litteratur er viktig. 108(215), s. 3–3. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan; Wolfe, Stephen & Niemi, Einar a (2009). Introduction: Cultural Production and Negotiation of Northern Borders. Journal of Northern Studies. ISSN 1654-5915. s. 7–11. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan; Sæterbakken, Stig & Edenborg, Carl-Michael (2009). Vold i nordisk samtidslitteratur (Paneldiskusjon). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan; Leikvoll, Jan Roar; Gabrielsen, Gøhril & Kollbotn, Kjersti (2009). Nye stemmer: Tre ferske forfattere snakker om motivasjonen for å skrive, og valg av vold som tema (paneldiskusjon). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2008). The Theoretical Basis of Border Poetics. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2008). Ytterst på Vingene: Grenser i Skogheims Sulis. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2008). Popular Images and Imaginings of the Arctic in Central Europe. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2008). Presentasjon av prosjektet Arktiske diskurser. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wærp, Henning Howlid; Ryall, Anka & Schimanski, Johan (2008). Leder for Nordlit 23: Arctic Discourses 2008. Nordlit. ISSN 0809-1668. s. 9–9. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2008). Reading Borders. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2008). Russell A. Potter, Arctic Spectacles. The Frozen North in Visual Culture, 1818–1875, Seattle & London: University of Washington Press 2007, ISBN 9780773533325, ix + 258 pp. Journal of Northern Studies. ISSN 1654-5915. s. 93–97. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan (2008). Kulturmøter: matrosene. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Sojtarić, Maja; Spring, Ulrike & Schimanski, Johan (2008). Polare helter fra det sentrale Europa. [Journal]. Labyrint. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2008). Exploration becoming Literature: Writing Strategies in the Reception of the Austro-Hungarian Polar Expedition. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2008). Explorers’ Bodies in Arctic Mediascapes: Celebrating the Return of the Austro-Hungarian Polar Expedition in 1874. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2008). Arktiske diskurser. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2008). Exploration becoming Literature: Writing Strategies in the Reception of the Austro-Hungarian Polar Expedition. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2008). Er grenser egentlig fiksjoner? Grenser i litteratur og film. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2008). Presentasjon av pågående grenseforskning. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Per, Næss; Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2008). Polare helter fra det sentrale Europa. [Journal]. Nordlys. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wærp, Henning Howlid; Schimanski, Johan & Ryall, Anka (2008). "Sammen om arktisk litteratur". Intervju om konferansen Arctic discourses 2008, Universitetet i Tromsø, 21.-23. februar, med 65 foredragsholdere fra 15 land. (Journalist: Lasse Jangås.). [Journal]. Nordlys. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Wærp, Henning Howlid & Schimanski, Johan (2008). Intervju om konferansen Arctic Discourses 2008, Universitetet i Tromsø, 21.-23. februar. [Radio]. NRK P1, Troms og Finnmark. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2008). Narrative Borders in Arctic Exploration Discourse: The Austro-Hungarian Arctic Expedition 1872-1874. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2008). Et gjensydd sår: Om Roy Jacobsens Grenser. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2007). Kvinnen—moralens vokter i isødet? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2007). Tromsø—Bergen—Wien: En polarekspedisjon på veien hjem. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Lachnit, Peter (2007). Dimensionen - Die Welt der Wissenschaft. [Radio]. ORF - Radio Ö1. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2007). Grensens kultur og kulturens grenser. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2007). Kjønn i filmen Fight Club. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2007). No Borders Without Fiction. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2007). Prosjektet arktiske diskurser/Mottakelse og Mottakelse. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2007). Arctic Southerners. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2007). Can Scandinavian Borders be Mapped? Can Literature Map Borders? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2007). "Die Quarneroli am Nordpol.” Österreichisch-ungarische Identitäten und arktische Fähigkeiten. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2007). Border-crossing as Translation, Translation as Border-crossing. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2006). Ingen litteratur uten grenser, ingen grenser uten litteratur. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2006). Introduction on Borders and Literature: Possibilities and Implications. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2006). Prinser og havfruer i nordområdene. s. 3–3. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2006). The Return to the Matrixial Borderspace: Dannie Abse’s ‘The Pencil Box’. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2006). No Borders Without Fiction. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Lachnit, Peter (2006). Diagonal. Zum Thema: Licht. [Radio]. ORF - Radio Ö1. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2006). Reception and Reception: The Returns of the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition, 1872–1874. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2006). Grensen – litterært faktum med romlig form. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2006). Ingen grenser uten litteratur, ingen litteratur uten grenser. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2005). Drums of the Babongo and the Ironies of Celtic Postcolonialism. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2005). Representasjon og resepsjon i arktisk diskurs: Den østerriksk-ungarske polarekspedisjonen, 1872-1874. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2005). Fantastic Borderings. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Wolfe, Stephen (2005). Introduction to Round Table Discussion: Borders Differences Distances. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2005). Panel Discussion Contribution on Teaching Gender in Border Studies. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan; Wærp, Henning Howlid; Ryall, Anka; Jangås, Lasse & Sæbbe, Yngve Olsen (2005). 9 mill. til forskning på arktisk litteratur. [Journal]. Nordlys. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan; Wærp, Henning Howlid & Fermariello, Ugo (2005). [om arktiske diskurser]. [Radio]. NRK P2. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Spring, Ulrike (2005). Wien - Tromsø - Franz Josefs Land 1872-1874 og etterpå, i vitenskap, populærkultur, kunst og litteratur. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Elven, Inger Merete (2004). Om fabelprosa på Laterna Magica. [Journal]. Bladet Vesterålen. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2004). [interview on Angharad Tomos]. [Radio]. BBC Radio Cymru. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2004). Postkoloniale Reise als Umkehrung. IASLonline. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Wolfe, Stephen (2004). Workshop 1: Border Poetics � A Project Proposal. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Lang, Birgit (2004). Grenzgängerinnen: Transitory Borders in Contemporary German Literature. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Wolfe, Stephen (2004). Workshop 2: Reading the opening of Heart of Darkness through border poetics. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2004). The Stitched Wound: The Borders of European War in Roy Jacobsen�s Grenser. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2004). Hamsun�s Colonial Nonsense. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2002). Metodisert teori. Norsk litteraturvitenskapelig tidsskrift. ISSN 0809-2044. 5(2), s. 179–184. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Omtale av Johannes Fibiger, Gerd Lütken og Niels Mølgaard, red., Litteraturens tilgange – metodiske angrebsvinkler, København: Gads Forlag, 2001.

• Schimanski, Johan (2000). Island Horizons: Territorial/Textual Borders in Derek Walcott's 'Names'. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (1999). Smugling over litteraturens grenser: Canetti og grenseteorien idag. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (1999). Vil du være kvinne igjen? Utflukt. ISSN 0804-9327. 1/2, s. 74–75. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (1999). �Che Gelida Manina� in Welsh: Internal and External Cultural Translation in the Future Wales of Islwyn Ffowc Elis. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (1997). Hen Wraig y Bala. Barn. ISSN 1357-4256. s. 414–415. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Lindgren, Lena (1997). Forskjellenes fellesskap. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. s. 13–13. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Røssaak, Eivind (1997). Litteraturens veiskilt. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847. s. 5–5. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (1995). Kanon utenfra. s. 49–51. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan & Brooks, Simon (1993). Wales og den post-moderne nasjonalismen. Gateavisa. ISSN 0802-2216. s. 35–37. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Intervju med Simon Brooks

• Teistung, Even; Schimanski, Johan & Janss, Christian (2025). Home and Nowhere. On homelessness and belonging in W.G. Sebald and Jenny Erpenbeck. Universitetet i Oslo. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This thesis is a comparative study of homelessness and belonging in selected works by W. G. Sebald and Jenny Erpenbeck – the first of its kind. Through close readings of Sebald’s Die Ausgewanderten (1992) and Erpenbeck’s novels Heimsuchung (2008), Aller Tage Abend (2012) and Gehen, ging, gegangen (2015) I examine the authors’ representation of different forms of homelessness, flight, and emigration, and what these tell us about the handling of German history after the Shoah. Reading within a theoretical frame provided by Hannah Arendt’s texts on flight and homelessness, and with a double perspective on both the representation of subjective experiences of loss and structural and political bordering, outlines clear differences in the conception of homelessness, as well as the sociopolitical and existential possibilities that appear when narrating a country’s history from the perspective of a fleeing person. The close readings uncover a distinction between what I call existential homelessness in Sebald, and political homelessness in Erpenbeck. Where Sebald’s stories portray the loss of home and belonging as an incurable and irreparable metaphysical trauma of identity, leading to isolation and longing for death, Erpenbeck’s novels show an evolution away from existentialism and into loss of home as a loss of illusion, which clears the ground for new interpretations of history. Sebald’s stories look inward and backward, contemplating loss; Erpenbeck’s novels look outward and forward, towards possible sociopolitical communities in the present. This means that Sebald’s stories portray history as locked in a negative groove, whereas Erpenbeck’s novels challenge the grip of the past over the present. This decisive difference illuminates the image either author draws of Germany’s identity after the Shoah, and prepares the grounds for renegotiations of German identity in the 21st century.

• Schimanski, Johan Henrik (2016). Working Paper 12: Changing Borders in Published Migration Narratives in Norwegian. EUBORDERSCAPES. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This working paper gives some of the interpretations and working hypotheses reached at this stage of my contribution to research within the EUBORDERSCAPES project Working Package 10, Research Task 3: ”Cultural Borders of Europe ‘Bordering’ and ‘Re-bordering’ Europe through Fictional Narratives: The Case of Immigrant ‘Others’”. The paper examines migration literature written and published in Norwegian by the children of migrants or migrants born elsewhere but growing up partly in Norway, for rhetorical and narrative figurations of borders and border-crossings which can provide keys to changing conceptions of borders and to the values these are ascribed. The paper argues for the close connection between border concepts in the corpus and the status of the books as performative acts crossing from private experience to public discourse. This process is often explicitly addressed in the texts themselves and is part of an extended borderscape. I intend later to address further texts, the negotiation of border concepts in the reception of texts, the social context and research literature on migration in Norway, and research literature on migration literature in general.

• Schimanski, Johan & Wolfe, Stephen (2005). ENG-3105: Border Crossing Narrative og “Grensepoetikk”. UiT Norges arktiske universitet. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2004). Postkolonial teori: Artikler. UiT Norges arktiske universitet. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Liepe, Lena; Schimanski, Johan & Wolfe, Stephen (2004). Borders and Frames / Grenser og rammer: Volumes 1-3. UiT Norges arktiske universitet. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (2004). Postkolonial litteratur: Dikt & noveller. UiT Norges arktiske universitet. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (1996). A Poetics of the Border: Nation and Genre in Wythnos yng Nghymru Fydd and Other Texts by Islwyn Ffowc Elis. Universitetet i Oslo. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Schimanski, Johan (1990). Falskneri som pre-romantisk trope: Iolo Morganwg 1747-1826. Universitetet i Oslo. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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