The minor as major: Outsiderness and social class in Saara Turunen’s prose
| Autor: | Taija Roiha |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Cultural Studies
Literature yhteiskuntaluokat kirjailijuus History biology business.industry minor-character elaboration Minor (academic) Social class biology.organism_classification sukupuoli sosiaalinen asema Education autofiktio Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ulkopuolisuus feministinen kirjallisuudentutkimus Saara social class Sivuhenkilö (romaani 2018) authorship business |
| Zdroj: | European Journal of Cultural Studies. 24:741-756 |
| ISSN: | 1460-3551 1367-5494 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/13675494211006088 |
| Popis: | Saara Turunen’s Sivuhenkilö is a work of autofiction, which tells the story of a year in its unnamed protagonist’s life. Despite her success as an author, the protagonist feels like a minor character in her own life: an outsider both because of her gender and her profession as a writer. In this article, I offer a critical reading of Turunen’s prose by asking what political implications are attached to her handling of outsiderness. I approach outsiderness not merely as a theme, but also as a genre-specific feature peculiar to the tradition of feminist rewriting. Based on my reading of Sivuhenkilö, I argue that regardless of its feminist potential, framing oneself as an outsider can function as a way of smoothing out differences and privileges, such as social class. Following this, I argue that the feminist stance explicitly presented in the novel is strongly connected to liberal and popular feminism. |
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