Leken i antropocen : skräpestetik i Barbro Lindgrens Loranga, Masarin och Dartanjang (1969) och Loranga, Loranga (1970) / Lydia Wistisen.

• Abstract: The article examines the ecological and aesthetic dimensions of trash in Barbro Lindgren’s children’s books Loranga, Masarin och Dartanjang (1969) and Loranga, Loranga (1970). It investigates how Lindgren develops a waste aesthetics by inscribing the child, the play, and the children’s book in a contemporary environmental critique of waste disposal. I argue that her aesthetics differs from the established image of political children’s literature around 1968. The article contributes to the growing field of waste studies, a research area intertwined with material ecocriticism and modernity studies. Stories that connect waste with play and fantasy have the ability to work as counter-narratives and bridge the gulf between human culture and non-human nature. In a traditional environmental discourse nature is configured as a passive victim of exploitation and contamination. These kinds of narratives are performative in their disenchantment of the human-nature relationship, and perpetuate alienation and disinterest. Lindgren’s waste aesthetics, on the other hand, encourages a productive relationship to trash and Loranga, Masarin och Dartanjang and Loranga, Loranga are examples of counter-narratives. 

Ämnesord

Ekokritik  (sbiao)

Leksaker i litteraturen  (sbiao)

Miljöfrågor i litteraturen  (sbiao)

Skräp i litteraturen  (sbiao)

Ideologi och litteratur  (sbiao)

Antropocen i litteraturen  (sbiao)

1960-talet  (sao)

1968 

Genre

Analys och tolkning  (saogf)

Namn/titel

Lindgren, Barbro, 1937-: Lorangaböckerna