Disappearing Acts

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This article focuses on Anna Wahlenberg, one of the Swedish women writers of the so-called Åttiotalsgenerationen [the (18)80s generation], a category established in Swedish literary historiography that refers to the young writers who, inspired by August Strindberg and the Modern Breakthrough, used literature as a platform for social criticism, and who proliferated during the 1880s. Like most women included in that group, Wahlenberg has been erased from the literary canon and from history. This article focuses on the discursive strategies that effected her systematic erasure from literary discourse in the context of a pervasive gender ideology. I will, accordingly, view literary history, definitions, genres, epochs, evaluations, and methods as they pertain to female authors with skepticism and suspicion, and see them as “products of long-term temporal chains of censorious events.” In re-reading Wahlenberg’s work in historical contexts rather than through the lens of established literary criticism and its imposition of generic structures, and in evaluating how she negotiated imposed regulating structures, I seek to break those “historiographic chains of silencing events” (Lindh Estelle 2023: 28).

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