Raoul Granqvist
Kapitelförfattare
Raoul J. Granqvist is Professor Emeritus of English at the Department of Language Studies, Umeå University. His teaching has focused on English and Postcolonial Literatures with special attention to the semiotics of space and power, translation, and intercultural critique (Africa and the West). He is currently engaged in two book projects, one related to the American photojournalist Eliot Elisofon’s work in Africa (1943–1976), and the other, provisionally entitled ‘The Good Swede in Africa’, is a critical history of altruism as a theme in Swedish cultural politics (1900–2000).
Raoul J. Granqvist is Professor Emeritus of English at the Department of Language Studies, Umeå University. His teaching has focused on English and Postcolonial Literatures with special attention to the semiotics of space and power, translation, and intercultural critique (Africa and the West). He is currently engaged in two book projects, one related to the American photojournalist Eliot Elisofon’s work in Africa (1943–1976), and the other, provisionally entitled ‘The Good Swede in Africa’, is a critical history of altruism as a theme in Swedish cultural politics (1900–2000).