Rapporter fra sykehuset

Sykepleierrollen i Tegnehannes Blod, svette og tress-is (2017) og Liv Bjørnhaug Johansens Den lange vakta. En historie fra et helsevesen på bristepunktet (2021)

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  • Hannah Tischmann Universitetet i Stavanger

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Norwegian literature, medical humanities, healthcare, working-class literature, nurse, covid-19

Abstract

”Reports from the Hospital. The Representation of Nurses in Tegnehanne’s Blod, svette og tress-is (2017) and Liv Bjørnhaug Johansen’s Den lange vakta. En historie fra et helsevesen på bristepunktet (2021)”

This article analyses how nurses are represented in two contemporary Norwegian texts: Blod, svette og tress-is (Blood, Sweat and Neapolitan Ice Cream), a hybrid of verbal and graphic narrative by Tegnehanne (2017), and Den lange vakta. En historie fra et helsevesen på bristepunktet (The Long Shift. A Story from the Health Sector at Bursting Point), a non-fiction text by Liv Bjørnhaug Johansen (2021). The analysis is based on a combination of close reading and a contextual perspective, for instance, on the public discourse about nurses. In some recent Covid-19-related newspaper articles, nurses are represented by using war metaphors and angel symbols. The two selected texts, in contrast, emphasise the nurse as professional actor and human being. Being a nurse is represented as a valuable and giving profession. Simultaneously, by featuring characteristics of the literary report genre, both works shed a critical light on working conditions in the care sector and their effects on the care worker. Thus, this article argues that the analysis of how healthcare professionals are represented in literature can contribute to the developing field of medical humanities by adding a more institutionalized perspective on (the treatment of) illness and the patient.

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Författarbiografi

Hannah Tischmann, Universitetet i Stavanger

Förstabibliotekarie vid Universitetsbiblioteket i Stavanger. Hon disputerade 2020 vid Universitetet i Wien med doktorsavhandlingen “Timing the ‘Invisibles’. Narrative Time Practices and Social Inequalities is Selected Works of Swedish Working-Class Literature of the 1970s and he Early Twenty-First Century”.

Publicerad

2023-04-27

Referera så här

Tischmann, H. (2023). Rapporter fra sykehuset: Sykepleierrollen i Tegnehannes Blod, svette og tress-is (2017) og Liv Bjørnhaug Johansens Den lange vakta. En historie fra et helsevesen på bristepunktet (2021). Tidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap, 52(2-3). Hämtad från https://publicera.kb.se/tfl/article/view/6715

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