A masculinist northern wilderness and the emancipatory potential of literary irony

Gender, Place and Culture

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 319-335

  Ridanpää, Juha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Irony; Literary geography; Northernness; Postcolonial studies

Indexed keywords

GENDER; LITERATURE REVIEW; POST-COLONIALISM; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

FINLAND;

EID: 77952346251     PISSN: 0966369X     EISSN: 13600524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09663691003737595     Document Type: Article

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