Nordic speculative fiction : research, theory, and practise / edited by Jyrki Korpua, Aino-Kaisa Koistinen, Hanna-Riikka Roine, and Marta Mboka Tveit.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Korpua, Jyrki, 1977- editor.
• Koistinen, Aino-Kaisa, editor.
• Roine, Hanna-Riikka, editor.
• Tveit, Marta Mboka, editor.
• ProQuest ebook central

Series:

• Studies in global genre fiction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Speculative fiction, Scandinavian--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 317 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.

Biography/History:

Jyrki Korpua, PhD, is a researcher of literature at the University of Oulu, Finland. Aino-Kaisa Koistinen, PhD, is a poet, freelance writer, teacher of creative writing, and university researcher at the University of the Arts Helsinki Research Institute, Finland. Hanna-Riikka Roine, PhD, docent, works as an associate professor of digital culture at the University of Bergen, Norway. Marta Mboka Tveit is a PhD candidate with the CoFUTURES research group at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Contents:

• Introduction : Nordic speculative fiction / Jyrki Korpua, Aino-Kaisa Koistinen, Hanna-Riikka Roine and Marta Mboka Tveit
• Speculative strategies in stories about the future of Finnish democracy / Hanna-Riikka Roinea
• At the intersection of experimental and speculative : three novels by Jaakko YliJuonikas / Laura Piippo
• The modernity that was yet to come : on Claës Lundin's science-fiction novel, Oxygen och Aromasia : Bilder från år 2378 / Michael Godhe
• The figure in the magic carpet : structuralism, literary fantastic, and northern philology / Pekka Kuusisto
• The uncanny in Tove Jansson's short stories : motifs of the sublime and the horror / Jyrki Korpua
• Welcome to the uncanny valley : speculations on the posthuman condition in contemporary Danish fiction / Sophie Wennerscheid
• The strange ecologies of the north : Finnish weird as an environmental genre / Juha Raipola
• References to the primary world in Finnish climate fiction / Claudia Nierste
• Redreaming Europe : the historical past and the speculative present in Jani Saxell's Europe series / Kasimir Sandbacka
• Immigrant identity in fantasy fiction : Russian youth culture in contemporary Finnish fantasy / Jenniliisa Salminen
• 'What is left behind' : extractivism in Blå by M. Lunde and "The satellite charmer" by M. B. Diene / Marta Mboka Tveit
• The sea as a site of contact : a hydrocolonial reading of Beforeigners / Ruth S. Wenske
• Living in space(s) without a future : depictions of mental illness in Aniara / Josefine Wälivaara
• Examining gender in the gameplay and reception of Housemarque's Returnal / Maria Ruotsalainen
• Once again you voted the wrong way!
• Atorox Award, short fiction and the Finnish SFF fandom / Oskari Rantala
• Tracing 'chthulucene environmental imaginations' in contemporary art : the speculative in the work of Larissa Sansour and Johannes Heldén / Caroline Elgh
• Coda : speculative conversation (a poetic inquiry) / Aino-Kaisa Koistinen & Line Henriksen.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
• Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 30, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version: Nordic speculative fiction

ISBN:

• 9781003561101
• 1003561101
• 9781040255469
• 1040255469
• 9781040255520
• 1040255523

Publisher Number:

40032568381

Access Restriction:

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