Harnessing the monstrous: the dark side of Astrid Lindgren

No ordinary girl “Pippi was no ordinary girl”, (Lindgren 1997, 69) Astrid Lindgren tells us in one of her characteristic ironic understatements. The reader certainly has no quarrel with this observation. Although, unlike Karlsson on the Roof she doesn’t have a propeller on her back, Pippi is extrao...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carole Scott
Format: Article
Language:Danish
Published: Svenska Barnboksinstitutet 2011-11-01
Series:Barnboken: Tidskrift för Barnlitteraturforskning
Online Access:https://www.barnboken.net/index.php/clr/article/view/50