Kuoleman koreografia

2012

Arvostelu teoksesta Paul Auster: Talvipäiväkirja. Suom. Erkki Jukarainen. Tammi, 2012. 225 s. nonPeerReviewed

”Aika on kaikkein haurain pinta”

2016

“Time Is the Flimsiest Surface.” Affective Distance and the Weight of History in Yiyun Li’s Kinder Than Solitude
 This article examines the linkages between personal and political history and their relationship to the experience of time and a ective distance in Yiyun Li’s (b. 1972) novel Kinder an Solitude (2014). The method of analysis is a combination of close reading with a specific focus on affective distance, and a historically contextualizing approach. In this article, the notion of affective distance refers to an individual level psychic and emotional experience of estrangement, loneliness, and temporal and spatial discontinuity. The manifestation of a ective distance in Li’s no…

Maailmojen välissä, matkalla minuuteen : identiteetti narratiivisena prosessina Amy Tanin romaanissa The Joy Luck Club

2006

Gettolapsen kaksoiselämä

2012

Arvostelu teoksesta Jean Kwok: Käännöksiä. Suom. Ulla Lempinen. Bazar, 2011. 279 s. nonPeerReviewed

Displaced desires : the dislocated self and melancholic desire in Chuang Hua's Crossings and Fae Myenne Ng's Steer toward rock

2015

This essay investigates two aesthetically innovative Chinese American prose narratives, Crossings (1968) by Chuang Hua and Steer Toward Rock (2008) by Fae Myenne Ng, which have so far inspired relatively few scholarly readings. Although published forty years apart, both texts convey a melancholic image of displaced desires—loved ones who are lost, beyond reach, or unresponsive—that is echoed by their complex narrative structure and rich stylistic repertoire. Drawing from the psychoanalytically informed notion of racial melancholia, this essay argues that in Chuang’s Crossings and in Ng’s Steer Toward Rock the dynamics of melancholia manifest most prominently in the ways their dislocated cha…

"Aika on kaikkein haurain pinta" : affektiivinen etäisyys ja historian paino Yiyun Lin romaanissa Kinder than solitude

2016

Ihminen on juureton puu

2017

Arvostelu teoksesta Han Kang: Vegetaristi. Suom. Sari Karhulahti. Gummerus, 2017. 215 s. nonPeerReviewed

Rewriting loss : melancholia, ethics, and aesthetics in selected works by Chuang Hua, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Fae Myenne Ng.

2014