Hur långt bort når världslitteraturen? En läromedelsanalys om representationen av skönlitterära författare som skrivit på andra språk än svenska inom gymnasiekurserna Svenska 1 och 2

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to contribute knowledge about the representation of fiction authors who have written in languages other than Swedish in educational school books within the Swedish subject. This is done in relation to the school's promotion of cultural diversity, a globalized world and to the Swedish curriculum. The study is a combination of a qualitative and a quantitative analysis that takes its starting point in six educational books for the courses Swedish 1 and 2. The analysis shows that all study materials include a broad representation of authorships from Europe and the USA. The selection of authors from other parts of the world is, however, limited. The mentioned authors are legitimized with a connection to another subject content, to the author as an individual, to the author's impact on the outside world or with regard to the school's curriculum. The authors who are described with positive emotionally-charged words are almost exclusively born in Western Europe or in the United States. The selected authors in several of the teaching books do not contribute to the goal in the Swedish curriculum that is promoting a global context. To achieve this goal in the future, there is room for more research on which fiction authors are mentioned in teaching books in other parts of the world. Such research can contribute with knowledge about how Swedish authors of educational books can broaden the representation of literature.