Útrásarvíkingar! The Literature of the Icelandic Financial Crisis (2008-2014)

Útrásarvíkingar! The Literature of the Icelandic Financial Crisis (2008-2014)

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As the global banking boom of the early twenty-first century expanded towards implosion, Icelandic media began calling the country's celebrity financiers útrásarvíkingar: "raiding vikings." This new coinage encapsulated the macho, medievalist nationalism which underwrote Iceland'...

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Main Author: Hall, Alaric (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Brooklyn, NY punctum books 2020
Subjects:
Iceland
Literary studies: from c 1900 -
Economic systems & structures
banking, Iceland, literature studies, post-colonialism, neomedievalism, economic crisis, capitalism
banking
literature studies
post-colonialism
neomedievalism
economic crisis
capitalism
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