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In:Nordic Literature: A comparative history: Volume II: Figural nodes
Edited by Steven P. Sondrup, Mark B. Sandberg, Nathaniel Kramer, Christopher Oscarson, Linda Haverty Rugg and Karin Sanders
[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages 38] 2026
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Exile in Finnish literature

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Article outline
  • The departure and return of Väinämöinen
  • Life outside the fatherland
  • A challenge to the fatherland: Exilic inversion in Aleksis Kivi’s Seitsemän veljestä
  • The inner and internal exile of the Swedish-speaking Finns
  • The artist and the experience of loneliness
  • Here under the northern star — the exilic encyclopedia
  • The fatherland runs out of people
  • The unpleasant are banished from the fatherland
  • Notes
  • Works cited
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