Jopi Nyman
Biographic Data
| ID | 107235 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jopi Nyman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jopi |
| FAMILY NAME | Nyman |
| SIGNATURE | NYMAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Eastern Finland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4593-8804 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mediterranean Borderlands in Göran Schildt’s Ikaros’ hav (1957)
This article examines the representation of Mediterranean borderlands in the travelogue Ikaros’ hav (1957; The Sea of Icarus [1959]) by Göran Schildt (1917–2009). The article discusses Schildt’s text through the lens of the borderlands concept developed by Chicana theorist Gloria Anzaldúa. The article shows how the discourse of borders is present in Schildt’s text in various ways, including cultural, ethnic, and religious borders. The disruptive …
Global and Local Borders in Nicholas Murray’s Travel Writing
Kapka Kassabova and Ben Judah: Writing Borders and Borderscapes in Contemporary Europe
This article addresses the role of border and borderscapes in two contemporary texts by writers based in Britain, Kapka Kassabova’s Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe [Kassabova, Kapka. 2017. Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe. London: Granta] and Ben Judah’s This Is London: Life and Death in the World City [Judah, Ben. 2016. This is London: Life and Death in the World City. London: Picador]. Reading these texts as narratives of border …
Palimpsests in Ethnic and Postcolonial Literature and Culture: Surfacing Histories
Palimpsests in Ethnic and Postcolonial Literature and Culture: Surfacing Histories
Border Images, Border Narratives: The Political Aesthetics of Boundaries and Crossings
No Longer Lost on the Human Highway: Human–Animal Relationships in Neil Young’s Special Deluxe: A Memoir of Life & Cars
In recent years, Canadian/US singer, songwriter, and author Neil Young's production shows increased signs of environmental awareness, manifested in his promotion of biofuels, critique of genetic manipulation, biotechnology, and ecocide, as well as in his warm attitude to non-human animals. These issues are dealt with in detail in his recent memoir Special Deluxe: A Memoir of Life & Cars (2015), as well as on his recently released albums such as T…
Mobilities and Mediterranean peripheries: Narrating Maltese identities in Vincent Vella'sSlippery Steps
This article examines the representation of European peripheries in contemporary postcolonial writing through a study of the centre–periphery relationship in the English-language novel Slippery Steps: A Maltese Odyssey (2011) by the Maltese writer Vincent Vella. The article argues that Vella’s novel is embedded in transnational mobility and shows that Maltese identity is constituted by constant movement between Malta and Britain, periphery and ce…
Racial and Ethnic Identities in the Media
A life of extremes”: The British discover modern Finland 1917–1941
"“A life of extremes”: the British discover modern Finland 1917–1941." Studies in Travel Writing, 20(3), pp. 308–309
Affect, Space and Animals
British imaginings of a European periphery: Roger Scruton, Michael Palin and Michael Booth in/on Finland
This article examines the representation of Finland as a European periphery in three modern British travel narratives: Roger Scruton's Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life (2005), Michael Palin's Pole to Pole (1992) and Michael Booth's Almost Nearly Perfect People: The Truth about the Nordic Miracle (2014). In these texts the narrators travel to a European periphery between the east and the west, populated by a peculiar nation that the authors as…
No Particular Hurry: British Travellers in Finland 1830–1917
Horse as Significant Other: Discourses of Affect and Therapy in Susan Richards’s Chosen by a Horse: How a Broken Horse Fixed a Broken Heart
This essay examines Susan Richards’s memoir Chosen by a Horse: How a Broken Horse Fixed a Broken Heart (2006) by focusing on its affective representation of the human-horse relationship. The discussion shows how the story of the mare Lay Me Down in Richard’s work is intricately linked with the narrator’s changing identity. It contends that this relationship, represented in the text by the use of a discourse of healing and self-regeneration, seeks…
Eco-National Discourse and the Case of the Finnhorse
In eco-national discourses, animals and other nonhumans are represented as national through their position as native breeds or species. In this article, we investigate the definition of the animal as a representative of a 'national breed' and its support to nation-building. This article is a case-study of the contemporary representation of the Finnhorse as a 'national breed' in the context of Finnish discourses of national identity. The materials…
Mobile Narratives: Travel, Migration, and Transculturation
Not So Barren or Uncultivated’: British Travellers in Finland 1760–1830, by Tony Lurcock
‘Not So Barren or Uncultivated’: British Travellers in Finland 1760–1830, by Tony Lurcock, London, CB Editions, xiv + 230 pp., £10, ISBN 978-0956107398. Tony Lurcock's book is a welcome contributio
From Harrods to Africa: The Travels of a Lion Called Christian
This essay is a postcolonial reading of the recently republished auto/biography A Lion Called Christian (2009; originally published in 1971), written by two Australians, Anthony Bourke and John Rendall. The book narrates the unlikely story of raising a lion in Chelsea and discusses his eventual repatriation and new life in East Africa. The essay argues that the representation of the animal in the metropolitan and African spaces as portrayed in th…
The Ashgate Research Companion to Border Studies
Doris Wastl-Walter (ed.), Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. This substantial volume consisting of an introduction, 32 specialist essays, and 705 pages (and weighing 1.664 kg) surve
Beyond Liverpool, 1957: Travel, diaspora, and migration in Jamal Mahjoub’s The Drift Latitudes
This essay discusses the novel The Drift Latitudes (2006) by the Anglo-Sudanese author Jamal Mahjoub. By telling the stories of the German refugee Ernst Frager and his two British families, I argue that Mahjoub’s novel utilizes the tropes of transnational travel and migration to present a critique of discourses of purity and nationalism. Through its uncovering of silenced family narratives, the novel hybridizes British and European identities and…
Cultural Contact and the Contemporary Culinary Memoir: Home, Memory and Identity in Madhur Jaffrey and Diana Abu-Jaber
(2009). Cultural Contact and the Contemporary Culinary Memoir: Home, Memory and Identity in Madhur Jaffrey and Diana Abu-Jaber. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 282-298
Reconstructing Hybridity: Post-Colonial Studies in Transition
This interdisciplinary collection of critical articles seeks to reassess the concept of hybridity and its relevance to post-colonial theory and literature. The challenging articles written by internationally acclaimed scholars discuss the usefulness of the term in relation to such questions as citizenship, whiteness studies and transnational identity politics. In addition to developing theories of hybridity, the articles in this volume deal with …
American Studies in Finland
Since its establishment in 1996, the Finnish American Studies Association has sought to promote the field of American Studies in Finland by organizing conferences, events and by increasing networking amongst its scattered membership (ca. 35) working at various universities and other higher education institutions. The current President of the Association is Dr Jopi Nyman (University of Joensuu) and its Secretary is Dr Ari Helo (University of Helsi…
The Body Overconsumed: Masculinity and Consumerism in Ernest Hemingway's 'Across the River and Into the Tree
While all of Ernest Hemingway's writing can be seen to explore the construction and maintenance of masculinity, his Across the River and into the Trees (1950) locates issues of gender and power in the context of aging and illness. By exploring the final days of Colonel Cantwell in Venice, the novel brings forth cultural responses to anxieties over aging and illness, with particular reference to gender. Thus, it is the intention of this essay to a…
The Ashgate Research Companion to Border Studies
Doris Wastl-Walter (ed.), Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. This substantial volume consisting of an introduction, 32 specialist essays, and 705 pages (and weighing 1.664 kg) surve
Eco-National Discourse and the Case of the Finnhorse
In eco-national discourses, animals and other nonhumans are represented as national through their position as native breeds or species. In this article, we investigate the definition of the animal as a representative of a 'national breed' and its support to nation-building. This article is a case-study of the contemporary representation of the Finnhorse as a 'national breed' in the context of Finnish discourses of national identity. The materials…
Kapka Kassabova and Ben Judah: Writing Borders and Borderscapes in Contemporary Europe
This article addresses the role of border and borderscapes in two contemporary texts by writers based in Britain, Kapka Kassabova’s Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe [Kassabova, Kapka. 2017. Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe. London: Granta] and Ben Judah’s This Is London: Life and Death in the World City [Judah, Ben. 2016. This is London: Life and Death in the World City. London: Picador]. Reading these texts as narratives of border …
Horse as Significant Other: Discourses of Affect and Therapy in Susan Richards’s Chosen by a Horse: How a Broken Horse Fixed a Broken Heart
This essay examines Susan Richards’s memoir Chosen by a Horse: How a Broken Horse Fixed a Broken Heart (2006) by focusing on its affective representation of the human-horse relationship. The discussion shows how the story of the mare Lay Me Down in Richard’s work is intricately linked with the narrator’s changing identity. It contends that this relationship, represented in the text by the use of a discourse of healing and self-regeneration, seeks…
Beyond Liverpool, 1957: Travel, diaspora, and migration in Jamal Mahjoub’s The Drift Latitudes
This essay discusses the novel The Drift Latitudes (2006) by the Anglo-Sudanese author Jamal Mahjoub. By telling the stories of the German refugee Ernst Frager and his two British families, I argue that Mahjoub’s novel utilizes the tropes of transnational travel and migration to present a critique of discourses of purity and nationalism. Through its uncovering of silenced family narratives, the novel hybridizes British and European identities and…
Cultural Contact and the Contemporary Culinary Memoir: Home, Memory and Identity in Madhur Jaffrey and Diana Abu-Jaber
(2009). Cultural Contact and the Contemporary Culinary Memoir: Home, Memory and Identity in Madhur Jaffrey and Diana Abu-Jaber. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 282-298
Global and Local Borders in Nicholas Murray’s Travel Writing
British imaginings of a European periphery: Roger Scruton, Michael Palin and Michael Booth in/on Finland
This article examines the representation of Finland as a European periphery in three modern British travel narratives: Roger Scruton's Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life (2005), Michael Palin's Pole to Pole (1992) and Michael Booth's Almost Nearly Perfect People: The Truth about the Nordic Miracle (2014). In these texts the narrators travel to a European periphery between the east and the west, populated by a peculiar nation that the authors as…
The Body Overconsumed: Masculinity and Consumerism in Ernest Hemingway's 'Across the River and Into the Tree
While all of Ernest Hemingway's writing can be seen to explore the construction and maintenance of masculinity, his Across the River and into the Trees (1950) locates issues of gender and power in the context of aging and illness. By exploring the final days of Colonel Cantwell in Venice, the novel brings forth cultural responses to anxieties over aging and illness, with particular reference to gender. Thus, it is the intention of this essay to a…
American Studies in Finland
Since its establishment in 1996, the Finnish American Studies Association has sought to promote the field of American Studies in Finland by organizing conferences, events and by increasing networking amongst its scattered membership (ca. 35) working at various universities and other higher education institutions. The current President of the Association is Dr Jopi Nyman (University of Joensuu) and its Secretary is Dr Ari Helo (University of Helsi…
Reconstructing Hybridity: Post-Colonial Studies in Transition
This interdisciplinary collection of critical articles seeks to reassess the concept of hybridity and its relevance to post-colonial theory and literature. The challenging articles written by internationally acclaimed scholars discuss the usefulness of the term in relation to such questions as citizenship, whiteness studies and transnational identity politics. In addition to developing theories of hybridity, the articles in this volume deal with …
Cultural Contact and the Contemporary Culinary Memoir: Home, Memory and Identity in Madhur Jaffrey and Diana Abu-Jaber
(2009). Cultural Contact and the Contemporary Culinary Memoir: Home, Memory and Identity in Madhur Jaffrey and Diana Abu-Jaber. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 282-298
The Ashgate Research Companion to Border Studies
Doris Wastl-Walter (ed.), Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. This substantial volume consisting of an introduction, 32 specialist essays, and 705 pages (and weighing 1.664 kg) surve
Beyond Liverpool, 1957: Travel, diaspora, and migration in Jamal Mahjoub’s The Drift Latitudes
This essay discusses the novel The Drift Latitudes (2006) by the Anglo-Sudanese author Jamal Mahjoub. By telling the stories of the German refugee Ernst Frager and his two British families, I argue that Mahjoub’s novel utilizes the tropes of transnational travel and migration to present a critique of discourses of purity and nationalism. Through its uncovering of silenced family narratives, the novel hybridizes British and European identities and…
From Harrods to Africa: The Travels of a Lion Called Christian
This essay is a postcolonial reading of the recently republished auto/biography A Lion Called Christian (2009; originally published in 1971), written by two Australians, Anthony Bourke and John Rendall. The book narrates the unlikely story of raising a lion in Chelsea and discusses his eventual repatriation and new life in East Africa. The essay argues that the representation of the animal in the metropolitan and African spaces as portrayed in th…
Mobile Narratives: Travel, Migration, and Transculturation
Not So Barren or Uncultivated’: British Travellers in Finland 1760–1830, by Tony Lurcock
‘Not So Barren or Uncultivated’: British Travellers in Finland 1760–1830, by Tony Lurcock, London, CB Editions, xiv + 230 pp., £10, ISBN 978-0956107398. Tony Lurcock's book is a welcome contributio
No Particular Hurry: British Travellers in Finland 1830–1917
Horse as Significant Other: Discourses of Affect and Therapy in Susan Richards’s Chosen by a Horse: How a Broken Horse Fixed a Broken Heart
This essay examines Susan Richards’s memoir Chosen by a Horse: How a Broken Horse Fixed a Broken Heart (2006) by focusing on its affective representation of the human-horse relationship. The discussion shows how the story of the mare Lay Me Down in Richard’s work is intricately linked with the narrator’s changing identity. It contends that this relationship, represented in the text by the use of a discourse of healing and self-regeneration, seeks…
Eco-National Discourse and the Case of the Finnhorse
In eco-national discourses, animals and other nonhumans are represented as national through their position as native breeds or species. In this article, we investigate the definition of the animal as a representative of a 'national breed' and its support to nation-building. This article is a case-study of the contemporary representation of the Finnhorse as a 'national breed' in the context of Finnish discourses of national identity. The materials…
Affect, Space and Animals
British imaginings of a European periphery: Roger Scruton, Michael Palin and Michael Booth in/on Finland
This article examines the representation of Finland as a European periphery in three modern British travel narratives: Roger Scruton's Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life (2005), Michael Palin's Pole to Pole (1992) and Michael Booth's Almost Nearly Perfect People: The Truth about the Nordic Miracle (2014). In these texts the narrators travel to a European periphery between the east and the west, populated by a peculiar nation that the authors as…
Racial and Ethnic Identities in the Media
A life of extremes”: The British discover modern Finland 1917–1941
"“A life of extremes”: the British discover modern Finland 1917–1941." Studies in Travel Writing, 20(3), pp. 308–309
Palimpsests in Ethnic and Postcolonial Literature and Culture: Surfacing Histories
Palimpsests in Ethnic and Postcolonial Literature and Culture: Surfacing Histories
Border Images, Border Narratives: The Political Aesthetics of Boundaries and Crossings
No Longer Lost on the Human Highway: Human–Animal Relationships in Neil Young’s Special Deluxe: A Memoir of Life & Cars
In recent years, Canadian/US singer, songwriter, and author Neil Young's production shows increased signs of environmental awareness, manifested in his promotion of biofuels, critique of genetic manipulation, biotechnology, and ecocide, as well as in his warm attitude to non-human animals. These issues are dealt with in detail in his recent memoir Special Deluxe: A Memoir of Life & Cars (2015), as well as on his recently released albums such as T…
Mobilities and Mediterranean peripheries: Narrating Maltese identities in Vincent Vella'sSlippery Steps
This article examines the representation of European peripheries in contemporary postcolonial writing through a study of the centre–periphery relationship in the English-language novel Slippery Steps: A Maltese Odyssey (2011) by the Maltese writer Vincent Vella. The article argues that Vella’s novel is embedded in transnational mobility and shows that Maltese identity is constituted by constant movement between Malta and Britain, periphery and ce…
Kapka Kassabova and Ben Judah: Writing Borders and Borderscapes in Contemporary Europe
This article addresses the role of border and borderscapes in two contemporary texts by writers based in Britain, Kapka Kassabova’s Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe [Kassabova, Kapka. 2017. Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe. London: Granta] and Ben Judah’s This Is London: Life and Death in the World City [Judah, Ben. 2016. This is London: Life and Death in the World City. London: Picador]. Reading these texts as narratives of border …
Global and Local Borders in Nicholas Murray’s Travel Writing
Mediterranean Borderlands in Göran Schildt’s Ikaros’ hav (1957)
This article examines the representation of Mediterranean borderlands in the travelogue Ikaros’ hav (1957; The Sea of Icarus [1959]) by Göran Schildt (1917–2009). The article discusses Schildt’s text through the lens of the borderlands concept developed by Chicana theorist Gloria Anzaldúa. The article shows how the discourse of borders is present in Schildt’s text in various ways, including cultural, ethnic, and religious borders. The disruptive …
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