Jermut, korpisoturit ja militaristit suomalaisessa sotakirjallisuudessa


 
 
 Arto Jokinen, Isänmaan miehet: Maskuliinisuus, kansakunta ja väkivalta suomalaisessa sotakirjallisuudessa. Toim. Markku Soikkeli ja Ville Kivimäki. Tampere: Vastapaino 2019, 296 s.
 
 

Review Essay : Mountains, History, and Nature : A View Back from the Anthropocene Towards Historical Mountaineering Literature

Review essay of Caroline Schaumann’s Peak Pursuits: The Emergence of Mountaineering in the Nineteenth Century and of the anthology edited by Sean Ireton and Caroline Schaumann, Mountains and the German Mind: Translations from Gessner to Messner.

El Capitan as a Site for Male Healing from Trauma in Jeff Long’s The Wall and Tommy Caldwell’s The Push

Nature and mountains are often represented as places of healing in literature and the media, especially for white, healthy, and middleclass men. However, discussions on nature and gender in relation to trauma are rare, and a specific discussion on the representation of male mountain climbers’ traumas is missing. In this article, we are interested in how nature, particularly the famous mountain El Capitan, is represented in Jeff Long’s novel “The Wall” (2006) and Tommy Caldwell’s memoir “The Push” (2017) as a specific spatial location of healing for male rock climbers, who at the same time are both victims of traumatic events and partially responsible for the development of those events. Mor…

Book Review: Ecological Masculinities: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Guidance