The Aesthetics and Politics of Linguistic Borders

Acknowledgements

Part I. Introduction

1. Introduction: The processes and practices of multilingualism in literature

Ralf Kauranen, Markus Huss & Heidi Groenstrand

Part II. Multilingualism as a challenge to national borders

2. Follow the translations! The transnational circulation of Hassan Blasim's short stories

Olli Loeytty

3. Broken lineages, impossible affiliations: The Russian Baltic subject in Andrei Ivanov's "Zola" and Peotaeis pormu

Eneken Laanes

4. De-bordering comics culture: Multilingual publishing in the Finnish field of comics

Ralf Kauranen

5. The multilingual landscape of Sami literature: Linguistic and cultural border crossing in the work of Sigbjorn Skaden

Kaisa Ahvenjaervi

6. Kjartan Flogstad's Pampa Union: A travel on the border of languages in Latin America

Anne Karine Kleveland

7. Humour and shifting language borders in Umayya Abu-Hanna's auto-fictional novel Sinut

Heidi Groenstrand

8. An author's view: To be a bridge between cultures

Zinaida Linden

9. The pilot's son (short story)

Zinaida Linden

Part III. Multilingualism as problematization of language

10. Language play and politics in contemporary Swedish hip-hop

Karin Nykvist

11. "Conversations in misspelled English": Partial comprehension and linguistic borderlands in Tomas Transtroemer's OEstersjoear. En dikt (Baltics)

Markus Huss

12. Transcending borders through multilingual intertextuality in Ville Tietaevaeinen's graphic novel Naekymaettoemaet kaedet

Aura Nikkilae

13. Multilingualism and the work of readers: Processes of linguistic bordering in three cases of contemporary Swedish language literature

Julia Tidigs

14. "So let me remain a stranger": Multilingualism and biscriptalism in the works of Finland-Swedish writer Tito Colliander

Helena Bodin

15. Urbanized folk life: Multilingual slang, gender and new voices in Finnish literature

Kukku Melkas

16. The permeable border: Anxieties of the mother tongue in contemporary Nordic poetry

Elisabeth Friis

17. The small mysteries of code-switching: A practitioner's views on comics and multilingualism

Interview with Mika Lietzen by Ralf Kauranen

18. 1917 - Libau (comics short story)

Mika Lietzen

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