American Studies in Scandinavia is a biannual publication published by the Nordic Association for American Studies. The aim of the association is to encourage and promote serious study of the United States and its civilisation in the five Nordic countries. The journal is interdisciplinary drawing upon such fields as geography, history, linguistics, literature, political science, social anthropology and sociology.

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Editor’s Note

Benny Carlson, In the Service of Community: Somali Media in the Twin Cities

Rolf Lundén, Direct and Indirect Influence: The Impact of the American Short Story on Swedish Literature

Clara Juncker, Friends, Enemies, Writers: Dos Passos and Hemingway

Maria Holmgren Troy, “Between Memory and History”: The Nineteenth Century in Jewelle Gomez’s Vampire Novel, The Gilda Stories and the TV Series True Blood

Andrew J. Madigan, Henry Chinaski, Zen Master: Factotum, the Holy Fool, and the Critique of Work

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