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Nordic speculative fiction : research, theory, and practise / edited by Jyrki Korpua, Aino-Kaisa Koistinen, Hanna-Riikka Roine, and Marta Mboka Tveit.
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Ebook Central Perpetual, DDA and Subscription Titles- Format:
- Book
- 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:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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