THE FOURTH PART: STYLE, THE I, ETHICS IN A SWEDISH BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF A MINORITY

This study in literary composition aims to create new knowledge on ethics, style and "the I" as a pronoun in literary and in feminist academic writing.

The study is co-funded by Särskild biblioteksersättning, and contains literary biographic writing and a writing diary. Two biographical books will be published, as well as an English academic article.

In the study a new literary genre speak bitterness-prose, is developed ((inspired by the consciousness raising groups which were created in the Women´s Movement in the 1960´s and 1970´s), through which parts of the history of the Swedish LGBT1+-minority will be shaped, and put into a personal and a societal/structural perspective.

Knowledge from literary writing will be intertwined with the researcher´s academic expertise in the history of sexuality and in gender studies.

A visit as guest researcher at The Centre for Narrative Research, University of East London, is planned, as well as taking part in academic conferences. The project will also host a transdisciplinary workshop.

The study will take into acount current legislation on ethics, general ethical guidelines and specific ethical demands extracted from feminist research, and apply it on the process of literary biographical writing, trying to gain new insights in the question of how "freedom of the arts" can be viewed through the lens of "ethics in research".

The biographical "I" will try to situate and make itself accountable in and through ethics and style.