Search results for "fiktio"
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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
Migration, Identity, and Threatened Mental Health: Examples from Contemporary Fiction.
2018
In 2015, the world saw 244 million international migrants. Migration has been shown to be both a protective and a risk factor for mental health, depending on circumstances. Furthermore, culture has an impact on perceptions and constructions of mental illness and identity, both of which can be challenged through migration. Using a qualitative research approach, we analysed five internationally acclaimed and influential novels and one theatre play that focus on aspects of identity, migration, and threatened mental health. As a mirror of society, fiction can help to understand perceptions of identity and mental suffering on an intrapsychic and societal level, while at the same time society its…
Kuoleman arvoituksesta elämän mysteeriin : Paul Austerin City of Glass salapoliisiromaanin parodiana
1999
MINIMALIST THEORY OF FICTION AND THE ICTHINKING® METHOD AS A BACKGROUND FOR NEW INSIGHTS TO AUTISM
2021
The standard approach to conceptual understanding in the case of autism uses the distinction of abstract versus concrete thinking. This approach has its benefits but fails to explain all features of language use. For example, some concepts change their meaning in different contexts in contrast to concepts that are more rigid in their uses, such as mathematical concepts. This idea has its background in Minimalist theory of fiction (MTF), a theory that considers ‘skills to use words’ essential for understanding fiction, contrasting with theories that require pretending or make believe to understand fiction. From this background, the theory of Integrative Complexity (IC), and the method animat…
Reframing belonging : affective localism and the early fiction of Reino Rinne
2017
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 a…
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…
"Hyvät lukijat! Meidän täytyy ottaa haltuun meihin liittyvät sanat." : Vilja-Tuulia Huotarisen Valoa valoa valoa tyttökirjan ja tyttöyden (toisin) to…
2014
Tarkastelen pro gradu -tutkielmassani Vilja-Tuulia Huotarisen Finlandia Junior -palkittua tyttökirjaa valoa valoa valoa (2011). Tutkimukseni on sekä temaattista että kontekstuaalista: tutkin, miten teoksessa tyttöyden merkityksiä rakennetaan performatiivisesti ja miten teos sijoittuu kotimaisen tyttökirjallisuuden jatkumoon. Tärkein tutkimusongelmani on, miten valoa valoa valoa toistaa/toisin toistaa tyttöyttä ja tyttökirjaa. Tarkastelen teoksen kerrontaa teemaa tukevana valintana ja pohdin muun muassa keskuksettomien henkilöhahmojen, mimeettisyyden ja näyttelemisen teemojen kytkeytymistä teoksessa kirjoittuviin tyttökuviin. Työni teoreettisena lähtökohtana on Judith Butlerin ajatus subjekt…
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