Raija Taramaa
Finnish North American Literature Association
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Biographical Information
Raija Taramaa earned her PhD from the University of Oulu in Finland where her
research centers on Finnish North American Literature.
Publications
Taramaa, Raija. The Stubborn and Silent Finns with "Sisu" in
Finnish-American Texts: An Imagological Study of Finnishness in the Literary
Production of Finnish-American Authors. Diss. U. of Oulu, 2007.
Raija Taramaa's dissertation examines work by Joseph Damrell, Lauri Anderson,
Mary Caracker, Paula Ivaska Robbins, and Lynn Laitala. It provides a
comprehensive background of research to historically ground Finnish ethnic
identity in America, and draws on the critical apparatus of imagology to analyze the
creative works under study.
Raija Taramaa earned her PhD from the University of Oulu in Finland where her
research centers on Finnish North American Literature.
Publications
Taramaa, Raija. The Stubborn and Silent Finns with "Sisu" in
Finnish-American Texts: An Imagological Study of Finnishness in the Literary
Production of Finnish-American Authors. Diss. U. of Oulu, 2007.
Raija Taramaa's dissertation examines work by Joseph Damrell, Lauri Anderson,
Mary Caracker, Paula Ivaska Robbins, and Lynn Laitala. It provides a
comprehensive background of research to historically ground Finnish ethnic
identity in America, and draws on the critical apparatus of imagology to analyze the
creative works under study.