A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book

“New. Fantastic. Different” – Mariaana Jäntti’s Amorfiaana (1986) and Monika Fagerholm’s
Diva (1998) as Finnish Feminist Avant-Garde .Prose Fiction





AuthorsKurikka Kaisa

EditorsBenedikt Hjartarson, Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam, Laura Luise Schultz, Tania Ørum

Publishing placeLeiden and Boston

Publication year2022

Book title A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries Since 1975

Series titleA Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic COuntries

Number in series4

First page 880

Last page892

Number of pages13

ISBN978-90-04-44456-0

ISSN2214-0808


Abstract

This chapter focuses on two Finnish novels – Amorfiaana (1986), by Mariaana Jäntti,
and Diva (1998), by Monika Fagerholm – as examples of feminist prose fiction with
an avant-garde sensibility. By linking both novels to conceptualisations of feminist,
experimental and postmodernist literature the essay presents these works as engaging
in radical feminist politics by presenting new ways of describing young girls as literary
figures. By manipulating traditional ways of depicting girls both novels also engender
new kinds of literary expressions that link them to avant-garde traditions. In the his-
tory of Finnish literature Amorfiaana and Diva are in the vanguard of experimental
literature of the twenty-first century



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