Swedish-American Borderlands: New Histories of Transatlantic Relations

364 Pages·2021·23.199 MB·English

by  Dag Blanck (editor), Adam Hjorthén (editor)

SWEDISH–A MERICAN BORDERLANDS
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S W E D I S H –A M E R I C A N
B O R D E R L A N D S
NEW HISTORIES OF TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONS
Dag Blanck and
Adam Hjorthén, Editors
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Conceptualizing Swedish– American
Borderlands
Dag Blanck and Adam Hjorthén 1
Part I. Across Waters and Lands
1. Reservation Borderlands: Gender and Scandinavian Land
Taking on Native American Land
Karen V. Hansen 45
2. Borderlands and Lived Encounters: The Swedish Immigrant,
Interiority, and Home
Philip J. Anderson 65
3. Imagining Borders and Heartland through Legend
Jennifer Eastman Attebery 86
4. A Musical Borderland: How Jazz in Sweden Became
Domesticated, 1920–1960
Ulf Jonas Björk 101
5. Ancestral Relations: The Twentieth- Century Making of
Swedish- American Genealogy
Adam Hjorthén 116
6. Academics on the Move: The Nature and Significance of a
Swedish– American Intellectual Borderland
Dag Blanck 135
7. The Role of Design in a Swedish– American Landscape
Frida Rosenberg 154
Part II. Exchanges and Entanglements
8. Borderlands in Another World: How Sweden Envisioned
New Sweden, circa 1638–1702
Charlotta Forss 177
9. Captain Jack’s Whip and Borderlands of Swedish– Indigenous
Encounters
Gunlög Fur 192
10. Double Life: American and Swedish Biographies of
John Ericsson
Thomas J. Brown and Svea Larson 211
11. Swedish- American Cookbooks: Linguistic Borderlands
in Recipes
Angela Hoffman and Merja Kytö 226
12. A Postwar Italian Kitchen Shining in the Swedish– American
Borderlands
Franco Minganti 243
13. Imaginary Borderlands: Ingmar Bergman’s and
Michelangelo Antonioni’s Implicitly American Contact Zones
Maaret Koskinen 258
14. Political Correctness in Sweden: A Borderland Conceptual
History
Magnus Ullén 277
15. History and Heritage in Bishop Hill, Illinois: Preservation,
Representation, and Tourism in a Swedish– American
Borderland
Margaret E. Farrar and Adam Kaul 293
16. Negotiating the American Civil War: Memories and Gender in
Swedish- American Civil War Reenactment
Marie Bennedahl 310
Contributors 329
Index 333
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Acknowledgments
This book is a collaborative effort and the result of work of a trans-
atlantic academic community. We are first and foremost indebted to
our authors for their dedication to this project during the past several
years and for their willingness both to contribute their own research and
to shape the ideas of the project as a whole.
Our ideas about Swedish–A merican borderlands evolved through dis-
cussions within an international and interdisciplinary network of schol-
ars in the field of Swedish–A merican relations. Our meetings at Uppsala
University in 2016 and at Sigtunastiftelsen in Sweden in 2017, where
most of the authors participated, were particularly important. They were
made possible through two research initiation grants from the Swedish
Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences. Beyond the authors in
this volume, we also recognize the participation of Petter Bengtsson,
Bo G. Ekelund, Lizette Gradén, Arne Lunde, Oskar Nordell, Linda H. Rugg,
and Ann- Kristin Wallengren.
The contributions to Swedish- American Borderlands: New Histories of
Transatlantic Relations were significantly strengthened by scholars who
read and commented on the chapters. Thank you to Jennifer Eastman
Attebery, Anders Bergström, Ulf Jonas Björk, Anne Brædder, Ulla Böres-
tam, Carl-H enrik Carlsson, Richard Evans, Ola Johansson, Anna Källén,
Jim Leary, Helena Mattson, Magdalena Naum, Magnus Rodell, Ann-S ofie
Rossholm, Jonathan Skinner, John Wilson, and David Östlund. Thank you
to Harald Runblom for succinct feedback in the early stages of writing
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