Rethinking Cultural Appropriation in YA Literature Through Sámi and Arctic Pedagogies

• Published in: Children's Literature in Education
• Main Authors: Manderstedt, Lena, Palo, Annbritt, Kokkola, Lydia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2020
• Subjects: Linguistics and Language; Education; Arctic; Endeavour; Idijärvi; Sámi
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10583-020-09404-x; http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10583-020-09404-x.pdf; http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10583-020-09404-x/fulltext.html

Abstract This article highlights cultural appropriation in the literary representation of the Sámi (the indigenous people of the European Arctic) in two Swedish YA series: the Soppero quartet by the Sámi author Ann-Helén Laestadius, and the Idijärvi trilogy by Charlotte Cederlund, a non-Sámi writer....