Raita
Merivirta
Doctoral Researcher, History and Archaelogy
Faculty of Humanities
PhD, Docent
Areas of expertise
Colonialism
postcolonial literature
Indian English literature
modern Indian history
historical film
Irish cinema
twentieth-century Irish history
Finns and colonialism
Biography
I'm a doctoral researcher at the Department of European and World History. My research project examines colonial discourse in Finnish children's literature in the twentieth century. I am also more broadly interested in Finnish encounters with colonialism.
Research
I examine colonial discourse and racialization in Finnish children's literature in 1890-1970. I'm also working more broadly on themes related to Finns' encounters with colonialism.
I'm also working on a number of articles on the depictions of the Irish revolutionary years (1916-1923) on screen.
Publications
The Gun and Irish Politics. Examining National History in Neil Jordan's Michael Collins Collection (2009)
Reimagining Ireland
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