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Reframing belonging : affective localism and the early fiction of Reino Rinne
Nina Sääskilahtisubject
Cultural StudiesHistoryLappiHistoryfiction and poetrySociology and Political Scienceaffektiivisuusfiktiomedia_common.quotation_subjectta6122fictionBerlandpolitiikkaReading (process)050602 political science & public administrationta616jälleenrakentaminen0601 history and archaeologyNarrativekaunokirjallisuusLocalismWildernessbelongingArticulation (sociology)media_commonLiterature060102 archaeologybusiness.industry05 social sciencesRinnekuuluminen06 humanities and the artsMythologyCognitive reframingestetiikka0506 political scienceReinoLaurenAestheticsAnthropologyaffectivitybusinessRealismdescription
ABSTRACTThe early fiction of a novelist and journalist born in the north of Finland, Reino Rinne (1913–2002), is illustrative of the post-war interest in a redefinition of cultural belonging. The aim of this article is to offer a reading of Rinne’s works that throws light on the way they exemplify a post-war articulation of affective localism. What is especially characteristic of the affective localism produced in Rinne’s early fiction is the deployment of certain narrative elements, realism as an aesthetic regime, tropes of spatial belonging and historical myths that are endowed with affective charge. A comparison between Rinne's first novel Tunturit hymyilevat. Kuvaus Lapista 1900-luvun alkuvuosilta ([1945a]. The Fells are Smiling. Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtio Otava), and his collection of short stories Eramaan omia ihmisia ([1949]. People of the Wilderness. Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtio Otava), reveals that there was a change in Rinne’s artistic practice. While Rinne’s first novel revolved around a pr...
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
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| 2017-01-02 | Acta Borealia : A Nordic Journal of Circumpolar Societies |