Strindberg reconsidered

[2010-01-25] The official picture of the author August Strindberg is multifaceted. Radical social iconoclast, insane misogynist, genius and imposing national poet are some of his epithets. The picture becomes even more complex when studied in the light of new queer theory.

In the last few years, gender researchers have begun questioning the hundred-year old creation of myths about August Strindberg. A number of these are compiled in the anthology Det gäckande könet: Strindberg och genusteori [The elusive gender: Strindberg and gender theory]. One of the editors is Anna Westerståhl Stenport at the University of Illinois (USA).

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