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Edited by Pia Maria Ahlbäck, Jouni Teittinen and Maria Lassén-Seger
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 17] 2022
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Remembering in the age of global warming

Emmi Itäranta’s Memory of Water as ecological trauma fiction

 | University of Turku
Published online: 24 November 2022
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https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.17.12jyt
Article outline
  • Traces of a throwaway society
  • Water and vulnerability
  • Entanglements of human and non-human worlds
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
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