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Att sjunka in i ovetenhet : Nomadiska subjekt, humanism och posthumanism i Kerstin Ekmans Hunden (1986) och Löpa varg (2021)

This thesis aims to discuss how we should understand concepts such as humanism and posthumanism through readings of Kerstin Ekman’s Hunden (1986) and Löpa varg (2021). In particular it explores the concepts in relation to the core values such as ”respecting the environment” and ”western humanism” that features in the Swedish curriculum. I do so by using Rosi Briadotti’s theories on nomadic subjects and Malin Alkestrand’s didactic potential. Seeing Kerstin Ekman as a writer who problematize our understanding of humanism and posthumanism in relation to nature relies on the scholarly findings of primarily Linda Haverty Rugg, Marie Öhman and Anna-Karin Jonasson. In the first part of the analysis I argue for an understanding of the character Ulf in Löpa varg as a nomadic subject from whoms subjectivity a struggle between the humanism and the posthumanism arises, in relation to the attacks he encounters. The second part of the analysis focuses on Hunden and I ascertain an understanding of the novels conflict as a subjective becoming that the canine main protagonist Den gråe undergoes. Through this we see an argument of the nature’s flora and fauna as bearers of a soul in their own right. The third and final part of the analysis ties the found themes and motifs together and ponders how they could be used in the classroom. The focal take-away from the analysis is that a combination of humanistic and posthumanistic values reigns in the novels. Sometimes the nodes of knowing and unknowing needs to be blurred to navigate through life, if life’s objective is respecting both nature and the humans therein.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:sh-54256
Date January 2024
CreatorsTörning Skoglund, Robin
PublisherSödertörns högskola, Lärarutbildningen
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageSwedish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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