Senskadenes språk : Litterære fremstillinger av senskader etter kreftbehandling

2020

Master's thesis in Nordic languages and literature (NO500) The Language of Late Effects: Literary Representations of Late Effects after Cancer Treatment is a master’s thesis in Nordic literature. The thesis examines narratives about late effects after cancer. This literary genre is relatively new. Ina Nordic perspective, there can be traced a development in these kinds of narratives since 2015.Most of them are biographical/autobiographical or based on the authors’ own experiences. The intention of the thesis is three-parted. It inquires what stories exist within the genre, and how these stories are told. There is alsoa close reading of two of the books within the genre. These are Håvard Aag…