Networked Novels. Spatiality in Contemporary Finland-Swedish Literature. In Conversation with Kristina Malmio

Kristina Malmio, University of Helsinki, shares her research on
local and global tendencies in Finland-Swedish literature with
the help of two complex novels by Monika Fagerholm (The American
Girl) and Hannele Mikaela Taivassalo (In Transit). We muse about
the status of a privileged minority literature and discuss the
shifting locations of centers and peripheries. We explore
in-between-spaces and other metaphors of literary spaces and look
at movements of novels and their characters between countries,
continents and cultures. Finally, we are encouraged: Trust
yourself! Literature takes you everywhere.


Timestamps:


(00:00:31) Kristina Malmio’s Way to Literature Studies and
Scandinavian Studies 


(00:05:00) The Society of Swedish Literature in Finland 


(00:09:21) Historical and Contemporary Finland-Swedish Literature


(00:18:10) Minor Literature and World Literature


(00:23:02) Introducing Monika Fagerholm and The American
Girl


(00:30:45) Postmodern Literature and Kaleidoscopic Collaging


(00:37:32) Fagerholm’s Constructing of Space 


(00:34:48) Reconstructing the Belief in
Narration   


(00:41:11) The Reception in the US


(00:48:00) The Polycentric and Networked Novel


(01:01:12) Fagerholm on the Scandinavian Literature Scene 


(01:04:43) Introducing Hannele Mikaela Taivassalo and In
Transit


(01:14:13) The Chronotope of the Road and Bodily Experiences


(01:22:19) Anchoring in Space


(01:24:06) The Image of the North Pole Explorer


(01:29:33) Space in Contemporary Poetry 


(01:30:40) Advice to Student Self 


(01:31:43) An Announcement 


Bibliography, further information, and comments are available on
Experiment Geisteswissenschaften.


https://exgeist.hypotheses.org/


Idea and conception: Stefanie von Schnurbein


Cut: Cecilia Falkman


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