Search results for "autofiktio"
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Kuinka klassikko syntyy?
2019
Kirja-arvostelu teoksesta Roberto Arlt: Raivokas leikkikalu (El Jugueto Rabioso). Suom. Anna-Leena Häkli. Kustannusosakeyhtiö Sammakko 2018. 158 sivua nonPeerReviewed
The minor as major: Outsiderness and social class in Saara Turunen’s prose
2021
Saara Turunen’s Sivuhenkilö is a work of autofiction, which tells the story of a year in its unnamed protagonist’s life. Despite her success as an author, the protagonist feels like a minor character in her own life: an outsider both because of her gender and her profession as a writer. In this article, I offer a critical reading of Turunen’s prose by asking what political implications are attached to her handling of outsiderness. I approach outsiderness not merely as a theme, but also as a genre-specific feature peculiar to the tradition of feminist rewriting. Based on my reading of Sivuhenkilö, I argue that regardless of its feminist potential, framing oneself as an outsider can function …
“My Lies and Liaisons with Marilyn” : An Autofictional Representation of the Downtown Man, a Finnish Successor to the Marlboro Man in the Early 1990s
2022
In this autobiographical/autofictional article, I analyze the representation of masculinity, an advertising poster for a new Finnish cigarette brand from the 1990s recession, when a new man, a “softie,” debuted under the pressure of the traditional male model and the twenty-first-century dudes and lads. The model posing in the poster is a homosexual, me. In the article I ask whether a gay could represent a Finnish man in the early 1990s or only present him. I examine the picture with a queer eye in search of inconsistencies and distortions that break present alternative interpretations to heteronormativity.
 Keywords: homosexuality, masculinity, heteronormativity, advertising, represen…
Castron kastraatio : Pedro Juan Gutiérrezin proosa castrokommunistisen utopian romuttajana
2016
This dissertation explores how Pedro Juan Gutiérrez's fiction corresponds to the Castrocommunist utopia. The study has three goals: (1) to explain how Castro-communism has formed, altered and impacted on Cuban literature; (2) to investigate how Gutiérrez's fiction corresponds to the Castro-communist utopia and ideals; and (3) how his parodic (anti)detective story Nuestro GG en La Habana (2004) is based on and relates to Cuban socialist detective stories, Graham Greene's spy farce Our Man in Havana, Castro-communist historiography and the social, ideological and economic shifts in Cuban society during the 1990s. Previous studies on Gutiérrez's fiction have focused almost exclusively on the a…
Tom Malmquist: Ilma joka meitä ympäröi
2020
Kirja-arvostelu teoksesta Tom Mamquist: Ilma joka meitä ympäröi (All den luft som omger oss). Suom. Outi Menna. S&S 2020. 347 sivua nonPeerReviewed
Rajan tiloja : luonnollisuus, luonnottomuus ja epäluonnottomuus 2000-luvun pohjoismaisissa autofiktioissa
2015
Alex Schulman: Polta nämä kirjeet
2020
Édouard Louis: Väkivallan historia
2020
Kirja-arvostelu teoksesta Louis, Édouard (2020) Väkivallan historia (“Histoire de le violence”, 2016). Tammi, Helsinki. nonPeerReviewed
Édouard Louis: Ei enää Eddy
2019
Kirja-arvostelu teoksesta Édouard Louis, Ei enää Eddy. (En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule) Tammi 2019, s. 184, suom. Lotta Toivanen. nonPeerReviewed
Herman Koch: Suomen päivät
2020
Kirja-arvostelu teoksesta Herman Koch: Suomen päivät (Finse dagen). Suom. Antero Helasvuo. Siltala 2020. 328 s. nonPeerReviewed