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dc.contributor.editorÖsterlund, Mia
dc.contributor.editorMalmio, Kristina
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-26 00:00:00
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T13:58:56Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T13:58:56Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier617146
dc.identifierOCN: 1030820859en_US
dc.identifier.issn1458-5278
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32128
dc.description.abstract"Finland-Swedish writer Monika Fagerholm is one of the most important contemporary Nordic authors. Her experimental, puzzling and daring novels, such as Underbara kvinnor vid vatten (1994) and Den amerikanska flickan (2004), have attracted much critical attention. She has won several literary awards, including the Nordic prize from the Swedish Academy in 2016; her works have travelled across national and cultural borders as they have now been translated in USA, Europe, Eastern Europe and Russia. Fagerholm’s wild and visionary depictions of girlhood have long had an impact on the Nordic literary landscape; currently, she has many literary followers among young female writers and readers in Finland and Sweden. Novel Districts. Critical Readings of Monika Fagerholm is the first major study of Fagerholm’s works. In this edited volume, literary scholars explore the central themes and features that permeate Fagerholm’s works and introduce novel ways to understand and interpret her writings. The book begins with an introduction to her life, letters and the minority literature context of her writing and briefly describes the scholarship on Fagerholm’s works. After that, Finnish and Swedish scholars and experts on Fagerholm scrutinize her oeuvre in the light of up-to-date literary theory. The insights, theories and concepts of gender, feminist and girlhood studies as well as narratology, poststructuralism, posthumanism and reception studies are tested in close readings of Fagerholm’s works published between 1990 and 2012. Thus, the volume enhances and deepens the understanding of Fagerholm’s fiction and invites the attention of readers not yet familiar with her work. The articles demonstrate the multitude of ways in which literary and cultural conventions can be innovatively re-employed within 20th and 21th century literature to reveal new perspectives on contemporary Finnish and Nordic literature and ongoing cultural and social developments."
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesStudia Fennica Litteraria
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DN Northern Europe, Scandinaviaen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DN Northern Europe, Scandinavia::1DNF Finlanden_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writersen_US
dc.subject.otherpostmodernism
dc.subject.othercontemporary fiction
dc.subject.otherliterary theory
dc.subject.otherfeminist fiction
dc.subject.othergirlhood
dc.subject.otherAmerican Girl
dc.subject.otherArielle Greenberg
dc.subject.otherFinland
dc.subject.otherIntertextuality
dc.subject.otherMonika Fagerholm
dc.subject.otherSweden
dc.titleNovel Districts: Critical Readings of Monika Fagerholm
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.21435/sflit.9
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy51db0f72-616d-4d86-b847-ade19380e08f
oapen.relation.isFundedByf2ba3da1-e4a8-41c9-9a78-bf7b19984191
oapen.relation.isbn9789522227942;9789522227959
oapen.series.number9
oapen.pages262
oapen.place.publicationHelsinki
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: American Girl - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Girl; Arielle Greenberg - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arielle_Greenberg; Finland - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland; Intertextuality - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertextuality; Monika Fagerholm - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monika_Fagerholm; Postmodernism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism; Sweden - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden
oapen.identifier.ocn1030820859


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