Mapping a Postmodern Dystopia: Hassan Loo Sattarvandi’s Construction of a Swedish Suburb

Cristine Sarrimo

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Abstract In his novel Still (2008), the author Sattarvandi maps a postmodern dystopia by locating a few male protagonists in the suburb of Hagalund, which is located outside the capital Stockholm. The place depicted is a space of exile and confinement that is socially deprived and culturally appropriated. The inhabitants are disconnected from the city and the nation, and are instead positioned according to a local-global scale creating a space of interstitiality. When acknowledged as a historical site, Sattarvandi’s dystopian version of this particular suburb emerges as a complex urban space in transformation informed by its early modern, modern as well as postmodern cultural, historical and political contexts.

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