Et hvidkalket, gudsforladt lys: Inger Christensens alfabet og katastrofen

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The poetic voice in the Danish poet Inger Christensen's book of poems alphabet from 1981 is a prophetic voice. Since the Old Testament prophets, the prophetic voice has been characterized by a 'retroprospective' temporal structure: it jumps forward to a future disaster and backward from the fictional future to the present political facts. In Inger Christensen's words, the prophetic voice talks about a world bathed in the whitewashed, godforsaken light of impending disaster. This article suggests that an analysis of the prophetic voice in alphabet opens up a possibility to address the relationship between poetry and nuclear war and, in more general terms, between art and disaster.
Translated title of the contributionA Whitewashed Godforsaken Light: Inger Christensen's alfabet and the Disaster
Original languageDanish
JournalEuropean Journal of Scandinavian Studies
Volume46
Issue number1
Pages (from-to)137–156
ISSN2191-9399
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2016

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