Swedish Children’s Literature : A Transcultural Perspective

Swedish and Scandinavian Children’s Literature: Historical and Transcultural Perspectives The presentation opens on the topic of transculturality and related terms, such as international, multicultural, and global. I argue that although reading is essentially a transcultural practice in and by itself, the term transcultural is particularly apt when it comes to themes of cultural belonging, otherness, place and identity, and mobility and migration. I then provide a brief, historically contextualized chronology of the most important Scandinavian children’s books from the 19th C till today, paying special attention to the transcultural dimension or potentiality of some of these works. The final part of the presentation focuses on the forest setting as one particular transcultural theme (or topoi) of children’s literature