By combining the theoretical and methodological frameworks of postmigration and intersectionality, this study aims to investigate the challenges faced by the ‘postmigrant generation’ (descendants of immigrants, ‘mixed’ individuals, and transnational adoptees) in Norway as represented in contemporary literature. Specifically, it examines how different authors engage with these issues and the strategies they utilize to critique and counteract oppressive mechanisms. Particular attention is paid to how their works challenge an exclusionary and still widespread understanding of Norwegianness, which marginalizes those who deviate from obsolete notions of national homogeneity and ‘Nordic purity’ on the basis of aesthetic, cultural, linguistic, and religious factors. Furthermore, this study highlights cultural and linguistic practices and hybridisms that demonstrate how old hegemonic paradigms fail to represent contemporary Norway.
