Transforming Author Museums

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements



Introduction: The Expanded Spaces and Changing Contexts of Author Museums

Ulrike Spring, Johan Schimanski and Thea Aarbakke



Part I: Expansion



Chapter 1. New Architecture in Author Museums and Centres

Elin Haugdal



Chapter 2. A Displaced Apartment of a Poet in a Museum: Staging and Reception of Franz Grillparzer in the Wien Museum

Eva-Maria Orosz



Chapter 3. From Cobwebs to a Web-Based Reality: Drawing Young Adults into a Memorial House

Anna Benedek



Chapter 4. Ghostly Voices in the Author Museum

Ulrike Spring and Johan Schimanski



Chapter 5. Unpacking the Book Collection: Following a Guide, a Curator and a Librarian in an Author Museum

Thea Aarbakke



Chapter 6. The Gunnar Ekeloef Room and the Poet's Widow as Archivist and Author

Helena Bodin



Chapter 7. This Is Not a Set of Guidelines - or How (Not) to Exhibit Literature

Vanessa Zeissig



Part II: Politics



Chapter 8. New Sites of Worship: Sovietization and Literary Museums in Western Borderlands, 1940-79

Anastasia Felcher



Chapter 9. Exposing the Obscurity of the Chinese Literary Establishment: The Destabilizing Power of Author Museums

Emily Graf



Chapter 10. South African Literature, Author Museums and Narrative Expansion: The Olive Schreiner House

Dana Ryan Lande



Chapter 11. Troublesome Heritage in the Home of Bjornstjerne Bjornson

Marianne Egeland



Chapter 12. Housing World Literature: The Norwegian Ibsen Museums

Narve Fulsas



Epilogue: Author Museums and Democratization

Ulrike Spring, Johan Schimanski and Thea Aarbakke



Index