Livet i vald

Antisolidarisk vitalisme i nokre dikt av Åsmund Sveen

  • Per Esben Myren-Svelstad
Keywords: Åsmund Sveen, Nazism, vitalism, antisolidarity, gay double, queer poetry

Abstract

This article analyzes selected poems by Norwegian author Åsmund Sveen (1932–1963). A key problem in the scholarship has been the perceived para- dox of Sveen’s homoerotic poetry and his commitment to Nazism during World War II. I propose to read Sveen’s poems through the concept of antisolidarity, in order to discuss how they enter into a dialogue with vitalism and Nazism as heteronormative discourses. us, I argue that the speaker in many of Sveen’s poems is described as someone with a double loyalty: to his own identity and to a society that condemns the same identity. Instead of proposing to explain Sveen’s Nazism by way of his same-sex relations, I therefore suggest that his work exposes the impossibility of the double affinity between homoerotics and masculine vitalism.

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Published
2018-10-16
How to Cite
Myren-Svelstad, P. E. (2018). Livet i vald: Antisolidarisk vitalisme i nokre dikt av Åsmund Sveen. Lambda Nordica, 22(1), 71-92. Retrieved from https://lambdanordica.org/index.php/lambdanordica/article/view/497
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