What is the imagined North? Feroese
International audience Translation in Feroese. The North has been imagined and represented for centuries by artists and writers of the Western world, which has led, over time and the accumulation of successive layers of discourse, to the creation of an “imagined North” – ranging from the “North” of...
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Language: | Faroese |
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HAL CCSD
2019
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Online Access: | https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02265674 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02265674/document https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02265674/file/222059132.pdf |
Summary: | International audience Translation in Feroese. The North has been imagined and represented for centuries by artists and writers of the Western world, which has led, over time and the accumulation of successive layers of discourse, to the creation of an “imagined North” – ranging from the “North” of Scandinavia, Greenland, Russia, to the “Far North” or the poles. Westerners have reached the North Pole only a century go, which makes the “North” the product of a double perspective: an outside one – made especially of Western images – and an inside one – that of Northern cultures (Inuit, Sami, Cree, etc.). The first are often simplified and the second, ignored. If we wish to understand what the “North” is in an overall perspective, we must ask ourselves two questions: how do images define the North, and which ethical principles should govern how we consider Northern cultures in order to have a complete view (including, in particular, those that have been undervalued by the South)? In this article, I try to address these two questions, first by defining what is the imagined North and then by proposing an inclusive program to “recomplexify” the cultural Arctic. Vesturheims listafólk og rithøvundar hava í øldir framsett Norður sum eitt ímyndað rúm. Við tíðini hava upprúgvaðar diskursivar fláir so hvørt ført til skapanina av einum “ímyndaðum Norðri”. Hetta Norður umfatar Skandinavia, Grønland, Russland ella alt norðaneftir ella pólarnar. Men tað er bara ein øld síðani vesturlendingar rukku Norðpólinum, og hetta ger Norður til úrslitið av dupultum sjónarhorni. Annað er uttanífrá, t.e. soleiðis sum norðursmentanirnar síggjast í vesturlendskum framsetingum,og hitt sjónarhornið er innanífrá, t.e. soleiðis sum mentanirnar norðaneftir (inuit-, skandinavisk-, kreementan o.s.fr.) sjálvar lýsa seg. Tær fyrru framsetingarnar eru ofta einfaldaðar og tær seinnu undirmettar.Tí er neyðugt at seta tveir spurningar, um mann vil kanna Norður í einum heildarperspektivi: Hvussu kann Norður verða skilmarkað gjøgnum tað ímyndaða? Og ... |
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