Kroppsminne och kollektiv erfarenhet: Objektiveringens betydelse för produktionen av arbetarlitteraritet

Literature is the memory of a culture: whether included in canon or not, it testifies to conceptions, mentalities, and conditions its time. Working-class literature young literary type, that for long was excluded from recognized tradition, therefore has special relationship memory, experience, culture. The first Swedish working-class writers were self-taught, without access bourgeois cultural heritage. They workers, writing about workers addressing class collective. But they also individuals, who started their own memories experiences. How did go making thing matter whole class? integrate personal into collective culture? That main issue my article. task shed light on between individual experience generation prose around 1910.I will dive this subject by employing notion objectification, understood as creating vivid images, scenes, situations experiences serving an objective correlate (T.S. Eliot). function evoke recognition at distance implied reader: alienated (Viktor Shklovsky), kind sustained Verfremdung (Bertolt Brecht), which includes contemplation reflection. A working correlate, I understand here, must be based some form memory. want develop idea with support studies, specifically, works researcher Jan Assmann phenomenologist Thomas Fuchs.
 reasoning then tested text examples authors Dan Andersson (1888–1920), Maria Sandel (1870–1927), Karl Östman (1876–1953). In particular, dwell depictions physical labour, body are objectified, extent such objectification produces proletarian literariness.