Geopolitics, City Life, and Contested Places in Eyvind Johnson’s European Journalism, 1921–1925

Abstract

Abstract The article contributes to the understanding of thematic and stylistic patterns displayed in, and publication practices associated with, foreign-reportage journalism focused on European geopolitics, economy, and urban life in the interwar period. This is done by exploring a selection of Swedish modernist writer Eyvind Johnson’s journalistic correspondence articles from Germany and France for domestic newspapers and magazines, published between November 1921 and November 1925.

Keywords

• journalism
• interwar
• geopolitics
• critical futurity
• city
• Eyvind Johnson