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