Description: Positioning fantasy fiction as a response to the ongoing crisis of representation in Western fiction, this book explores the genre's unique potential to engage with our fluid sense of reality via speculative approaches to artistic mimesis.
Brief description: Elise Kraatila is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Tampere Institute for Advanced Study, Tampere University, Finland. Her projects focus on speculative storytelling the first of which was funded by Ella and Georg Ehnrooth Foundation (2022-2023) and then at Tampere Institute for Advanced Study.