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Accessed at http://www.karjalanliitto.fi/index.phtml?s=153 Cover design: Scott Kaukonen TABLE OF CONTENTS In Memoriam: Anselm Hollo 1 Helena Halmari: Editorial 3 Sirpa Salenius: Reflections of Home in Nineteenth-Century American Travel Writing of Finland 5 Maria Lähteenmäki: A Sense of Terijoki: The Discourse of Karelia in the Karelian Borderlands 29 Tiina Seppä: Discussions on the Past: Shared Experience in the Collection of Finnish Folk Poetry 47 Leena Paaskoski: Towards a Better Life: Family Capital and Upward Social Mobility Among Finnish Forestry Employees in the Extended 1950s 66 Pia Maria Ahlbäck: Stepping Out of the Tune: An Imagological Study of Arvid Mörne’s Poem “Sjömansvisa” (1899) 90 Scott Kaukonen: “I Wish There Had Been a Little Bit More Finland”: Finnish Crime Novels in English Translation 108 Martyna Markowska: Lapland Dislocated: Jorma Puranen’s Photography and Anthropology 130 Pauliina Latvala: The Narrativization of Political Socialization in Finnish Oral History Texts 141 Book Reviews 160 Heikkilä, Elli, and Saara Koikkalainen, editors. 2011. Finns Abroad: New Forms of Mobility and Migration. Migration Studies C21. Turku: Siirtolaisuusinstituutti, 224 pp. Reviewed by Lennard Sillanpää. Kääpä, Pietari, editor. 2012. Directory of World Cinema: Finland. Bristol: Intellect, 276 pp. Reviewed by Andrew Nestingen. Contributors 166 Photo by Jane Dalrymple-Hollo, Courtesy of Coffee House Press IN MEMORIAM Anselm Hollo 1934–2013 Anselm Hollo provided a generation of Americans insight into the intricacies of con- temporary Finnish poets and their verse, most notably the work of Pentti Saarikoski. He also introduced Finnish readers to Allen Ginsberg. These are the contexts in which I first became acquainted with the work of Anselm Hollo, whose own avant-garde poetics captured the raw vibrancy of the American 1960s. Anselm Hollo, extraor- dinary Finnish-American poet, translator, scholar, teacher, and long-time Journal of Finnish Studies Editorial Board Member, passed away on January 29, 2013. Anselm Hollo was born in Helsinki, Finland, in 1934, and was educated there but spent his senior year in high school on an exchange scholarship to the United States. In his early twenties, he left Finland to live and work as a writer and trans- lator, first in Germany and Austria, then in London, where he was employed by the BBC’s European Services from 1958 to 1967. During that time, he translated into Finnish Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and John Lennon’s In His Own Write. 1 Journal of Finnish Studies For the past forty-two years, Hollo had lived in the United States, teaching cre- ative writing and literary translation at numerous colleges and universities, including SUNY Buffalo, the University of Iowa, and the University of Colorado. He read his work, lectured, and conducted workshops at universities and colleges, art museums and galleries, literary conferences, coffeehouses, and living rooms. Since 1985, he had held the post of Professor of Writing and Poetics in the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, where he was instrumental in the development of their year-round MFA program. Naropa University marks his passing thus: “Naropa University has lost an ex- traordinary professor and friend,” shares Naropa President Charles Lief. “Anselm ex- uded European culture, Beat truth telling, and ordinary human kindness and grace; he was a fearless and outspoken poet-warrior and will be greatly missed by our community and the big world he so profoundly touched” (para. 2). Hollo published more than forty books and chapbooks of his poetry, including Notes on the Possibilities and Attractions of Existence: Selected Poems 1965–2000 (Coffee House Press), which won the San Francisco Poetry Center’s Best Book Award for 2001, and Guests of Space, also from Coffee House Press, 2007. He also translat- ed many contemporary Finnish poets, among them Paavo Haavikko (Selected Poems 1949–1988, Carcanet Press, 1991) and Pentti Saarikoski (Trilogy, La Alameda, 2003), as well as fiction, plays, and poetry by Bertolt Brecht, Paul Klee, Jean Genet, Aleksandr Blok, and Louis Malle, among others. In addition to Finnish, Hollo trans- lated from German, French, and Swedish. Hollo’s honors and awards included the New York State Creative Artists’ Public Service Award (1976), a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Poet’s Fellowship (1979), the PEN/American-Scandinavian Foundation Awards for Poetry in Translation (1981, 1989), Fund for Poetry Awards for Contributions to Contemporary Poetry (1989, 1991), The Finnish Government Prize for Translation of Finnish Literature (1996), a Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative American Poetry (1996), and a Civitella Ranieri Residency Award (2005). He passed away peacefully following a long illness, with his wife, Jane Dalrymple-Hollo and children, Kaarina and Tamsin, at his side. The literary, schol- arly, and Finnish-American communities will miss him profoundly. Hyvästi, Anselm Hollo. Reference Leif, C. 2013. “In Memory of Anselm Hollo.” Naropa University website. Retrieved from http://www.naropa.edu/faculty/in-memoriam/anselm-hollo.php Beth Virtanen South University Online 2 EDITORIAL This, the third issue of the Journal of Finnish Studies prepared in Huntsville, Texas, brings to you a set of eight articles. Volume 16, number 2, is an open issue, and the articles were never planned to form a unified, coherent collection—yet they do. The emerging themes are those of identity; the Self and the Other; fitting in—and being different; defining—and being defined. The issues of identity and representation are addressed at national, tribal, and individual levels. The topics our authors tackle are fascinating. In the opening article, Sirpa Salenius addresses the question of how nineteenth-century American travelers per- ceived Finland and created their written narratives of it as reflections of their own nation. Concepts of whiteness and masculinity, cleanliness and intelligence were idealized as travel writers constructed what Salenius calls “engaging reading experi- ences.” With persuasive vignettes, Salenius shows how these Victorian-era American authors’ identity and expectations are reflected in their descriptions of Finland. Through a different genre, Finnish crime novels in translation, and in texts created over a century later, Scott Kaukonen looks at some of the same issues as Salenius: how is Finland perceived and presented through the eyes of a foreigner— as opposed to the eyes of a Finnish writer? Kaukonen detects a pattern where the crime novels written by non-Finns show strong traits of genre-mixing; they become travel guides disguised as crime fiction—not completely unlike the travel writing on which Salenius’s article focuses. By providing a snapshot of Terijoki, a villa community on the Karelian Isthmus, Maria Lähteenmäki broaches the question of borderland identity. Terijoki was a focal point of an ideological dispute between Finland and Russia; today, because the region was annexed by the Soviet Union in 1944, for many Finns (especially those dislocat- ed), Terijoki continues to be a symbol of what it means to