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Evgenia Amey
An In-between Reader : Situatedness and Belonging in Tove Jansson’s Helsinki
Finnish-Swedish artist and writer Tove Jansson (1914–2001), widely known as the author of the Moomin books, was born in Helsinki and resided there for the greater part of her life. The city features as a setting for her adult-oriented fiction – notably, semi-autobiographical fix-up novels Sculptor’s Daughter (1968/2015) and Fair Play (1989/2011). This article adopts a situated approach to literary geography, examining the researcher’s own position as a Helsinki resident and a ‘situated’ reader. Using autoethnography as a method, I analyze how the city and Jansson’s life narrative are co-produced by the writer, her texts, texts about her (such as biographies and press articles) and myself as…
Ulkomaalaiset lukijat ja sitkeä peikko : Tove Janssonin ja hänen teostensa herättämät paikkakokemukset
Teksti on käännös lektiosta, joka esitettiin 3.11.2021 Jyväskylän yliopistossa pidetyssä väitöstilaisuudessa. Lektio perustuu Evgenia Ameyn väitöskirjaan “Ideal Absence and Situated Readers: Experiencing Space Through Connection to Tove Jansson and her Works”. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-39-8861-6 nonPeerReviewed
The Search for The ‘Authentic’ in the Context of Narrative-Inspired Travel
The article discusses the concept of authenticity in relation to literary travel and other forms of media-induced travel. Focusing on the power of fictional narrative to draw members of the audience to locations associated with a story, the paper aims to find out what exactly visitors are expecting to find when journeying to locations with literary and media associations. An overview of previous research demonstrates how the concept of authenticity has been understood in connection with travel inspired by literature, films and TV productions. An analysis of recent research, focusing on literary and screen-induced travel, demonstrates that perceptions of what is authentic varies between indi…
'Foreign Readers and the Imperishable Troll' : travelling to locations with connections to Tove Jansson and her works
The following piece is based on the lectio praecursoria presented at the defense of the doctoral dissertation ‘Ideal Absence and Situated Readers: Experiencing Space Through Connection to Tove Jansson and her Works’ which was publicly discussed on November 3, 2021, at the University of Jyväskylä. The full version of the dissertation can be found at: http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-39-8861-6. peerReviewed
On Mirkwood, Vampires and Rhododendrons : Experiencing Familiar Places through Fiction
The article looks at the possibilities of studying familiar places, with no existing connection to fictional narratives, through the prism of fiction. nonPeerReviewed
Chasing writers’ ghosts through a modern city : Augmenting urban space with literary connections during the Tove Jansson walk in Helsinki
The article employs the theme of a literary walk (Watson 2009), a practice of encountering places with literary associations on foot. Urban areas present especially suitable settings for such themed walks, as cities can have multiple literary connections, and literary places are located within a short distance from one another. In this paper, I focus on the sites associated with Tove Jansson (1914– 2001), a Finnish-Swedish artist and writer, internationally known for her books about the Moomins. The study utilises an autoethnographic approach and draws on observations at the sites with connections to Jansson in Helsinki, organised spatially into a walk around the city. I analyse how urban s…