Some of my texts I want to forget, and it is hard to talk about a new book when it is still underway. But in my books it is not a question of me myself, but of the self in general. The self is something that is explored in the book, the self in the world. The concept of self is, it is true, made large through narrative, but at the same time one's own self is made small. In addition, the self is not self-sufficient, undivided, but is always formed through others.
Language is an other.
The complete title of Monika's new book, which is to be published this autumn, is Diva. I think Diva is the end-point of my writing about girlhood. I still have not detached myself from it. In studies of femininity, it is not enough for old myths to be turned round and have a woman inserted. To create a new myth in which a woman speaks her own language.