Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality

Kristina Malmio is University Lecturer, Adjunct Professor in Nordic Literature at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and leader of the research project “Late Modern Spatiality in Finland-Swedish Prose Literature.”Kaisa Kurikka is Researcher and Adjunct Professor in the School of History, Culture, and Arts Studies at the University of Turku, Finland. She has a doctorate in Finnish Literature.

• 1. Introduction:  Storied Spaces of Contemporary Nordic Literature.- Part I Whose Place Is This Anyway? On the Social Uses of Space and Power.- 2. On the Commons: A Geocritical Reading of Amager Fælled.- 3. Mapping a Postmodern Dystopia: Hassan Loo Sattarvandi’s Construction of a Swedish Suburb.- 4. Living Side by Side in an Individualized Society: Home, Place, and Social Relations in Late Modern Swedish-Language Picturebooks.- Part II Where Do You Feel? Spaces, Emotions, and Technology.- 5. Love, Longing, and the Smartphone: Lena Andersson, Vigdis Hjorth and Hanne Ørstavik.- 6. “Never Give Up Hopelessness!?”: Emotions and Spatiality in Contemporary Finnish Experimental Poetry.- Part III Which Language Do You Use? Spaces of Language and Text.- 7. Stavanger, Pre- and Postmodern: Øyvind Rimbereid’s Poetry and  the Tradition of Topographic Verse.- 8. The Poetics of Blank Spaces and Intervals in Selected Works of Elisabeth Rynell.- 9. What Have They Done to My Song? Recycled Language in Monika Fagerholm’s The American Girl.- Part IV Is This a Possible Space? Potentialities of Space.- 10. “A Geo-Ontological Thump”: Ontological Instability and the Folding City in Mikko Rimminen’s Early Prose.- 11. Uncanny Spaces of Transformation: Fabulations of the Forest in Finland-Swedish Prose.- 12. “The World in a Small Rectangle”: Spatialities in Monika Fagerholm’s Novels.- 13. The Miracle of the Mesh: Global Imaginary and Ecological Thinking in Ralf Andtbacka’s Wunderkammer.