Britta Olinder
Om Britta Olinder
Ämne: engelska, litteraturvetenskap
Forskningsområden
Sedan jag i min lic.avhandling behandlat 1600-talsförfattaren John Drydens teoretiska utgångspunkter och litteraturkritik ägnades doktorsavhandlingen åt hur hans syn på dramats struktur återspeglas i hans tragedier. I övrigt har jag i huvudsak ägnat mig åt nutida litteratur från Irland, Kanada, Indien, Australien och Afrika. I början av 90-talet deltog jag i ett tvärvetenskapligt genusprojekt, som i mitt fall tillämpades på indisk litteratur.
1982 organiserade jag en internationell konferens vid Humanistiska fakulteten om postkolonial litteratur på engelska med deltagare från sexton länder från alla kontinenter (Salman Rushdies första internationella konferens) och två år senare en liknande. Som en del av universitetets hundraårsfirande anordnade jag en konferens om och med kvinnliga postkoloniala författare och 1997 förlade the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures sin årliga konferens till Göteborgs universitet liksom the European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) 2005. Dessemellan har det förekommit flera nordiska seminarier och projektdagar, ffa om irländska ämnen. Under åren har jag haft förmånen att finnas med i flera vitt spridda internationella nätverk.
Tidigare publikationer
Allmänna och historiska
- "The Links of a Curious Chain": Studies in the Acts and Scenes of John Dryden's Tragedies and Tragi-Comedies." (Diss.) University of Gothenburg, 1973.
- Review of Sven Bäckman, This Singular Tale: A Study of The Vicar of Wakefield and Its Literary Background in Moderna Språk LXVIII (1974), pp. 310-314.
- "The National Theatre on London's South Bank", Moderna Språk LXXII (1978), pp. 137-141.
- Review of The Works of John Dryden, University of California Press, vols. II, III, X, XVIII, in Anglia 100 (1982), pp. 211-216.
- A Sense of Place: Essays in Post-Colonial Literatures. Ed. Britta Olinder. Göteborg: English Department, Gothenburg University, 1984. (The Proceedings of the Gothenburg University Congress of Commonwealth Language and Literature, September, 1982.)
- Engelsk Läsebok, utg. av Deborah Fronko, Britta Olinder, Jan Robins, 1990.
- Artiklar om Soyinka, Tagore och Yeats för Nobelpristagare 1901-1991. Lund, 1991.
- Breaking Circles: More Essays in Post-Colonial Literatures. Ed. Britta Olinder. Aarhus: Dangaroo Press, 1991. Including the following paper:
- ”Survival, Reincarnation, Palace of the Peacock: Attitudes to Death and Life in Commonwealth Literature”. Breaking Circles, 202-17.
- Drygt 140 artiklar för Nationalencyklopedin från om afrikansk, indisk, karibisk, irländsk samt någon gång brittisk eller kanadensisk litteratur.
- Criss-Cross Tales: Short Stories from English-speaking Cultures. Ed. Michal Anne Moscow and Britta Olinder. Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2002. (340 pp.)
- Proceedings from the 8th Nordic Conference on English Studies. Ed. Karin Aijmer and Britta Olinder. Göteborg University, Department of English, 2003.
Om irländsk litteratur
- "Poetry from the Troubled North", Moderna Språk LXXI (1977), pp. 49-57.
- "Hyllningskör för Irländsk Teater", understreckare i Svenska Dagbladet, 28.3.1981.
(Om Brian Friel). - "The Poet's Trade: John Hewitt's View of His Own Poetry", Papers from the First Nordic Conference of English Studies. Oslo, 1981, pp. 148-161.
- "John Hewitt - Ulsterman of Planter Stock", Studies in Anglo-Irish Literature, ed. by Heinz Kosok (Wuppertaler Schriftenreihe Literatur, vol. 19). Bonn: Bouvier Verlag, 1982, pp. 376-389.
- "Landsflykt i Sverige", Joyce i Sverige, red. Tommy Olofsson. Stockholm: Atlantis, 1986, sid. 78-96.
- "Litteratur och politik i Nordirland", Mycket Mänskligt: Humanistisk forskning vid Göteborgs universitet 2, 1989.
- "'The Heartbreak's Relevant': Dramatic and Poetic Qualities of John Hewitt's The Bloody Brae", Perspectives of Irish Drama and Theatre, edited by Jacqueline Genet and Richard Allan Cave (Irish Literary Studies 33) Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1991, pp. 77-82.
- ”John Hewitt’s Travels in the Mediterranean as Reflected in his Poetry and Prose”. IASAIL Sardinia conference publication 1994.
- Article on John Hewitt. In The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature, ed. Robert Welch. Oxford: Claredon Press 1996
- “Hewitt’s Region in a Post-Colonial Perspective”. International Aspects of Irish Literature. Ed. Toshi Furumoto et al. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1996. 301-10.
- "Creating an Identity: John Hewitt and History", Ireland Towards New Identities. (The Dolphin Series 29) ed. Karl-Heinz Westarp and Michael Böss. Aarhus University Press, 1998, 120-133.
- ”Gender and Politics in Some Northern Irish Plays”. Twentieth-Century Theatre and Drama. Fest-schrift for Heinz Kosok. Ed. Jürgen Kamm. Trier: Wissenschaftlichen Verlag Trier, 1999, 545-554.
- “Exilens gränser – andra dimensioner hos kvinnliga diktare i Irland. Gränser: Humanistdagboken 2003. 301-07.
- Re-Mapping Exile: Realities and Metaphors in Irish Literature and History. Ed. Michael Böss, Irene Gilsenan Nordin and Britta Olinder. Aarhus University Press, 2005.
- “John Hewitt at Home and in Exile”. Re-Mapping. 135-57.
- “’Washed up on Somebody Else’s Tide’: The Exile Motif in Contemporary Poetry by Women”. Re-Mapping. 220-34.
- “The Literary Notes in John Hewitt’s Unpublished Autobiography”. Lines and Traces: Papers Presented to Lennart Björk on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Ed. Gunilla Florby and Karin Aijmer. Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2006. 101-08
- “Dom – och vi. Nordirlands situation i ett nötskal”. Dom – och vi: Humanistdagboken 2006. 235-41.
- “’I Remember’: Childhood, Professional Life and Politics in John Hewitt’s Autobiograåhical Works”. Recovering Memory: Irish Representations of Past and Present. Ed. Hedda Friberg, Irene Gilsenan Nordin and Lene Yding Pedersen. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. 52-68.
- Place and Memory in the New Ireland. Ed. Britta Olinder, Werner Huber. (Irish Studies in Europe vol 2) Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2009.
- ”Cross-Cultural Encounters and Clashes in John Hewitt’s Work”. Beyond Ireland: Encounters across Cultures, ed. Hedda Friberg-Harnesk, Gerald Porter and Joakim Wrethed. Oxford, etc.: Peter Lang, 2011. 267-89.
- ”Det självbiografiska jaget eller det självbiografiska ögat: Berättelser ur den nordirländske poeten John Hewitts liv”. Den tvetydiga pakten: Skönlitterära texter i gränslandet mellan självbiografi och fiktion, ed. Eva Ahlstedt och Britt-Marie Karlsson. Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2011. 285-95.
- “’A Neglected Landmark of Modern Theatre’? Notes on Joyce’s Exiles in Performance”. The Binding Strength of Irish Studies. Festschrift in Honoiur of Csilla Bertha and Donald E. Morse, ed. Marianna Gula, Mária Kurdi and István D. Rácz. Debrecen University Press, 2011. 153-64.
Om indisk litteratur
- "R.K.Narayan and his Novel The Guide", Moderna Språk LXX (1976), pp. 197-207.
- "Aspects of R.K.Narayan's Narrative Technique", Report of Workshop on World Literatures Written in English outside Great Britain and the USA, ed. by Raoul Granqvist (Umeå Papers in English, No 2), Umeå, 1982, pp. 63-73.
- "Reality and Myth in R.K.Narayan's Novels", Language and Literature in Multicultural Contexts, ed. by Satendra Nandan, Suva USP and the Association for Commonwealth Language and Literature Studies, 1983, pp. 286-296.
Also published in The Literary Criterion (India) XX:2 (1985), pp. 8-22. - "The Price of Independence: The Partition of India in Some Indo-English Novels", Proceedings from the Second Nordic Conference for English Studies, ed. by Håkan Ringbom and Matti Rissanen. Åbo: Åbo Akademi, 1984, pp. 591-600.
- "Om Anita Desai och rummets själ", Artes 1984:4, sid. 31-33.
- "The World of Malgudi: Indian Society in the Work of R.K.Narayan"; Papers on Language and Literature Presented to Alvar Ellegård and Erik Frykman, ed by Sven Bäckman and Göran Kjellmer (Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, Gothenburg Studies in English 60), 1985, pp. 303-313.
- "Narayan's Short Stories - Some Introductory Remarks", Commonwealth (Dijon, France) 8:1 (Autumn 1985), Special Issue: Images of India in Commonwealth Literature, pp. 24-30.
- "The Endings of R.K.Narayan's Novels in the Light of Metropolitan Fiction", Studies in Commonwealth Literature, eds. Eckhard Breitinger and Reinhold Sander. Tübingen, 1985, pp 171-177.
- "Narayan's Days: An Indian Autobiography", Proceedings from the Third Nordic Conference for English Studies. Hässelby, Sept 25-27, 1986,ed by Ishrat Lindblad and Magnus Ljung, vol II, pp. 715-725.
- "Irony in R.K.Narayan's Short Fiction. Short Fiction in the New Literatures in English (Proceedings of the Nice Conference of the European Association for Commonwealth Literature & Language Studies); ed by Jacqueline Bardolph, Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines de Nice, 1989, pp. 183-187.
- "Tensions between North and South in R.K.Narayan's Fiction", Studies in Modern Commonwealth Literature and Culture, Proceedings of the Eighth Commonwealth Literature Conference, ed by Edith Mettke, Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 1990, pp. 148-153.
- "The Power of Women in R.K.Narayan's Novels", R.K.Narayan: Critical Perspectives, ed by A.L.McLeod, New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1994, pp. 96-104.
- "Women in Indian Literature: An Introduction", A Sense of Difference, ed Marit Berge and Anne Holden Rönning (Senter for humanistisk kvinneforskning, Skriftserien nr. 8), Universitetet i Bergen, 1995, 101-112.
- "Gender-Power Issues in Indian Terms: Shashi Deshpande's Fiction": In A Talent(ed) Digger: Creations, Cameos, and Essays in honour of Anna Rutherford, ed. Hena Maes-Jelinek, Gordon Collier, Geoffrey V. Davis. Amsterdam/Atlanta GA, 1996 (Cross/Cultures 20), 244-253.
- "Makt och hänsynslöshet: Könsasymmetri i indisk myt och modern litteratur". I Varför grävde man upp drottning Kristina? Kvinnobilder i olika tider och kulturer. Göteborg, 1997. 168-88.
- ”R.K.Narayan” in A Reader’s Companion to the Short Story in English. Ed. Erin Fallon et al. Westport, Connecticut and London: Greenwood Press, 2001, 300-308.
Om kandensisk litteratur
- "Tältpinnen - ett feministiskt vapen?", GP, 15.6.1985. (Om Aritha van Herk).
- "Aritha van Herk's Use of the Old Testament in the Cause of Feminism", Proceedings from the Fourth Nordic Conference for English Studies: Helsingör, May 11-13, 1989, edited by Graham Caie etc., Department of English, University of Copenhagen, 1990, vol 2, pp. 641-647.
- "Geografiction: Literary Exploration in Aritha van Herk and Janice Kulyk Keefer", Informal Empire? Cultural Relations between Canada, United States and Europe, ed. Peter Easingwood, Konrad Gross and Hartmut Lutz. (Schriftreihe des Zentrums für Kanada-Studien an der Universität Trier, Band 8). Kiel: 1 & f Verlag, 1998, 219-227.
- ”The Role of Travelling in the Fiction of Janice Kulyk Keefer and Aritha van Herk”. Vilnius conference 2001, published 2002?
- “Utopi och politisk verklighet i Janice Kulyk Keefer’s parafras av Det öde landet”. Vision & verklighet: Humanistdagboken 2004. 247-53.
- Literary Environments: Canada and the Old World. Ed. Britta Olinder. Brussels: Peter Lang, 2006. Including the following:
- “Old and New Environments in Janice Kulyk Keefer’s The Green Library”. Literary Environments. 219-26.
- “Images of Canada in a Post-National Perspective: Janice Kulyk Keefer’s ‘The Waste Zone’”. Canada: Images of a Post/National Society, ed. Gunilla Florby, Mark Shackleton & Katri Suhonen. Bruxelles etc.: P.L.E. Peter Lang, 2009. 277-87.
- ”The Poetic World of Janice Kulyk Keefer”. Reading Janice Kulyk Keefer, ed. Deborah Saidero. Udine: Forum, 2009. 91-103. Also published in Janice Kulyk Keefer: Essays on Her Works, ed. Deborah Saidero. Toronto, Buffalo, Lancaster (U.K.): Guernica, 2010. 162-85.
Övrig samväldeslitteratur
- "Vit, radikal hjältedotter - osäker på sin roll", GT, 1.4.1980. (Om Nadine Gordimer).
- "Five Australian Novels of Today", Moderna Språk LXXX:2 (1987), sid. 107-111.
- ”African Literature in English: A Growing Richness”. Göteborg University in Africa - Africa at Göteborg university. Ed.Anders Närman and Jonas Ewald. Göteborg: Centre for African Studies, Göteborg University, 2001, 289-296.
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Women Writers of The
Troubles
Britta Olinder
Nordic Journal of English Studies - 2020-01-01 -
Minnen från studenttiden vid Göteborgs
universitet
Emin Tengström, Britta Olinder, Martin Fritz, Allan Svensson, Mats Oscarson, Britt-Mari Näsström, Peter Sjögren, Peter Tarnow, Henrik Zetterberg
- 2018-01-01 -
Etty Hillesum: Ett judiskt öde i andra världskrigets
skugga
Britta Olinder
Allvarligt talat: Berättelser om livet / red. Maria Sjöberg. - 2018-01-01 -
"Anita Desai and the Spirit of
Place"
Britta Olinder
Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings - 2017-01-01 -
The Holocaust as Private and Public Crisis: Janice Kulyk Keefer's Poetic Version of Etty Hillesum's Diaries and
Letters
Britta Olinder
Cross Cultures-Readings in Post Colonial Literatures and Cultures in English - 2017-01-01 -
"Inclusion and Marginalisation: John Hewitt as an Ulster Protestant in
Opposition"
Britta Olinder
NIS: Nordic Irish Studies - 2016-01-01 -
Cultural relations and aboriginal identity in Sally Morgan's My
Place
Britta Olinder
Transcultural Identity Constructions in a Changing World / Irene Gilsenan Nordin, Chatarina Edfeldt, Lung-Lung Hu, Herbert Jonsson, André Leblanc (eds.). - 2016-01-01 -
Migration and belonging in dEirdre Madden's
novels
Britta Olinder
The Leaving of Ireland: Migration and Belonging in Irish Literature and Film - 2015-01-01 -
The Fine Line between Auto and Fiction in Marian Engel's
Monodromos
Britta Olinder
La Langue dans la littérature, la littérature dans la langue: Textes réunis en hommage à Eva Ahlstedt, édités par Ingmar Söhrman et Katharina Vajta - 2014-01-01 -
John Hewitt and the Sister
Arts
Britta Olinder
The Crossings of Art in Ireland. Ed. Ruben Moi, Brynhildur Boyce, and Charles I. Armstrong - 2014-01-01 -
Vittnesmål från den stulna generationen: Sally Morgan's mångfaldiga
självbiografi
Britta Olinder
Personligt talat: Biografiska perspektiv i humaniora. Red. Maria Sjöberg - 2014-01-01 -
John Hewitt as the Travelling
European
Britta Olinder
Der reisende Europäer. Hg. Linda Karlsson Hammarfelt, Edgar Platen - 2014-01-01 -
Spår av
exilen
Britta Olinder
En dag i Dublin om James Joyces Ulysses. Red. Åsa Arping & Mats Jansson - 2014-01-01 -
The Northern athens or a city of horrors? Belfast as presented by some Irish women
writers
Britta Olinder
NJES Nordic Journal of English Studies - 2014-01-01 -
Belfast i några litterära
verk
Britta Olinder
Metropoler: Reflektioner kring urbana rum i litteratur och kultur. Utg. Eva Ahlstedt, Edgar Platen, Gunhild Vidén - 2013-01-01 -
The Language of Parody: Janice Kulyk Keefer's "The Waste
Zone"
Britta Olinder
Language, Football and All That Jazz: A Festschrift for Sölve Ohlander. Ed. Gunnar Bergh, Rhonwen Bowen & Mats Mobärg - 2013-01-01 -
The Glens of Antrim and the Streets of
Belfast
Britta Olinder
Urban and Rural Landscapes in Modern Ireland. Eds. Irene Gilsenan Nordin and Carmen Zamorano Llena - 2012-01-01 -
States of Exile: Anne Devlin's After
Easter
Britta Olinder
Ireland in Drama, Film, and Popular Culture: Festschrift for Werner Huber. Ed. Sandra Mayer, Julia Novak, Margarete Rubik - 2012-01-01 -
Enforced Migration and Other Journeys in Aboriginal Experience: Sally Morgan's Stories of Becoming Disinherited and
Dispossessed
Britta Olinder
Narrating Nomadism: Tales of recovery and Resistance - 2012-01-01 -
"A Neglected Landmark of Modern Theatre"? Notes on Joyce's Exiles in
Performance
Britta Olinder
The Binding Strength of Irish Studies: Festschrift in Honour of Csilla Bertha and Donald E. Morse. Ed. Marianna Gula, Mária Kurdi, István D.Rácz - 2011-01-01 -
Det självbiografiska jaget eller det självbiografiska ögat: Berättelser ur den nordirländske poeten John Hewitts
liv
Britta Olinder
Den tvetydiga pakten: Skölitterära texter i gränslandet mellan självbiografi och fiktion. Ed. Eva Ahlstedt och Britt-Marie Karlsson - 2011-01-01 -
Cross-Cultural Encounters and Clashes in John Hewitt's
Work.
Britta Olinder
Beyond Ireland: Encounters across Cultures. Ed. Hedda Friberg-Harnesk, Gerald Porter and Joakim Wrethed - 2011-01-01 -
Place and Memory in the New
Ireland
Britta Olinder, Werner Huber
- 2009-01-01 -
The Poetic World of Janice Kulyk
Keefer
Britta Olinder
Reading Janice Kulyk Keefer. Ed. Deborah Saidero - 2009-01-01 -
Authenticity: Art and the Artist in Deirdre Madden's
Fiction
Britta Olinder
No Country for Old Men: Fresh Perspectives on Irish Literature, ed. Paddy Lyons and Alison O'Malley-Younger - 2009-01-01 -
Images of Canada in a Post-National Perspective: Janice Kulyk Keefer's "The Waste
Zone"
Britta Olinder
Canada: Images of a Post/National Society. Ed. Gunilla Florby, Mark Shackleton & Katri Suhonen - 2009-01-01 -
"I Remeber": Childhood, Professional Life and Politics in John Hewitt's Autobiographical
Works
Britta Olinder
Recovering Memory: Irish Representations of Past and Present. Ed. Hedda Friberg, Irene Gilsenan Nordin and Lene Yding Pedersen. - 2007-01-01 -
The Literary Notes in John Hewitt's Unpublished
Autobiography
Britta Olinder
Lines and Traces: Papers presented to Lennart Björk on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Ed. Gunilla Florby and Karin Aijmer - 2006-01-01 -
Literary Environments: Canada and the Old
World
Britta Olinder
- 2006-01-01 -
Dom – och vi: Nordirlands situation i ett
nötskal
Britta Olinder
Dom – och vi: Humanistdagboken 2006 - 2006-01-01 -
Old and New Environments in Janice Kulyk Keefer's The Green
Library
Britta Olinder
Literary Environments: Canada and the Old World - 2006-01-01 -
"Washed up on Somebody Else's Tide": The Exile Motif in Contemporary Poetry by
Women
Britta Olinder
Re-Mapping Exile: Realities and Metaphors in Irish Literature and History - 2005-01-01 -
Re-Mapping Exile: Realities and Metaphors in Irish Literature and
History
Britta Olinder, Irene Gilsenan Nordin, Michael Böss
- 2005-01-01 -
John Hewitt at Home and in
Exile
Britta Olinder
Re-Mapping Exile: Realities and Metaphors in Irish Literature and History - 2005-01-01