Abstract
In his paper, Short Story 'We Got Married' and (Finnish) Identity Construction, Kimmo Jokinen proposes the validity of common belief today that a shift into a late-modern era is taking place. It has often been claimed in contemporary sociological debates that our postindustrial life has become more thoroughly imbricated with culture and signs and sociologists, in their analyses of contemporary life, are interested especially in stories people tell, hear, and read. Based on readers' survey data in Finland, Jokinen analyses the ways in which Rosa Liksom's short story We Got Married is being employed in identity construction. For Jokinen, Liksom's text provides us with two different types of negotiation between reader and text: one that focuses on the construction of national identity and the other where the text is individualistic and playful, with focus on the theme of sexuality. Kimmo Jokinen, Short Story 'We Got Married' and (Finnish) Identity Construction page 2 of 6 CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 4.4 (2002):
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