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 Do you have questions or comments for us at nordlitt? Please contact us at: [email protected]