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LitteraturvetenskapMaria SandelIvar Lo-JohanssonTeeth in LiteratureWorking-Class LiteratureEducational Perspective
The purpose of this text is to show how social class is (re)produced and created in the short stories?Draksådd? byMaria Sandel and Ivar Lo Johanssons ?Nya tänder? from Statarna I and to point out ways that the short storiesmay be useful from an Educational Perspective. Maria Sandel was the first (recognized) female author to writein the genre of Working-Class Literature in Sweden and Ivar Lo-Johansson is a recognized authorship who ismost famous for his novels portraying Statarna. The analysis focuses on how the teeth motif is portrayed in theshort stories. My analysis proves how the teeth motif is important in portraying the construction of class. In theirworks this text will account for a new insight into the motif and how teeth, or lack of teeth plays an importantpart in the identity as Working Class. Educational research that involves Swedish Working Class Literature inhigh school is unusal. Therefore this thesis gives important new knowledge into ways that it may be productive.Using the analysis as a base for a reflexion of how the short stories could be used in the classroom and showsthat the students ability to apply an intention , meta-cognitive and subject oriented reading is important for thereaders reception of the text.