Resan som hänförelse : Erla Hovilainen-Husgafvels berättelse "Brevet från Afrika" i historisk och biografisk kontext

• The Finland-Swedish ethnologist Erla Husgafvel's story 'Brevet från Afrika' ('The Letter from Africa') is a re-telling of an authentic episode from her mother's early life (1880's), about the exaltic impact of the turning up of a letter from her missionary sister in northern Namibia. As Husgafvel originally published her 'letter' in a Christmas bulletin for Ostrobothnian soldiers at the Russian war front in 1944, it reads as a secular consolation in its juxtaposing, almost blashemously,  the causes for confronting death, the dying for the present Coming of God alternatively for your country. It is brave statement about life. 

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