TY  - JOUR
A1  - Nexø, Tue Andersen
A2  - Al-Taie, Yvonne
A2  - Heine, Stefanie
T1  - Heliocentric Utopianism: Ecological Imagination and Utopian Longing in Inger Christensen and in Contemporary Danish Literature
T2  - Internationale Zeitschrift für Kulturkomparatistik Bd. 11 (2024): dal|tal|zahl. Inger Christensen und die Gegenwartslyrik
N2  - This essay discusses the relationship between Inger Christensen’s work and contemporary Danish eco-literature. Christensen can seem like a towering predecessor. Yet, the relationship is more complex than a question of anxiety of influence. This essay argues that Christensen and contemporary Danish literature exhibit differing ecological imaginaries, and that this becomes clear when one examines Christensen’s utopian writing, her heliocentric utopianism, of the late seventies and early eighties, and when one examines how ecological threats are depicted in her work. For Christensen, the paradigmatic threat to the world is the nuclear bomb and its excessive use of energy, for today’s literature it is the feedback loops of pollution, exemplified in the threat of climate change.
KW  - Inger Christensen
KW  - Danish Literature
KW  - Utopianism
KW  - Ecological Imaginaries
Y1  - 2024
UR  - https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2742
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:385-1-27424
SP  - 45
EP  - 60
ER  -