"Alla människor har sin berättelse": Interculturalism, Intermediality and the Trope of Testimony in Novels by Ekman, Ørstavik and Petersen

• Main Author: Martin, Suzanne Brook
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2010
• Subjects: Icelandic & Scandinavian literature; Scandinavian studies; Ethnic studies; Indigenous Cultures; Interculturalism; Intermediality; Sami; Scandinavian Literature; Witness Literature; Kautokeino; Petersen; Presten; sami
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/5xc593sq; http://n2t.net/ark:/13030/m52n56cv

This study focuses on Kerstin Ekman's Vargskinnet trilogy (1999-2003), Hanne Ørstavik's Presten (2004) and Martin Petersen's Indtoget i Kautokeino (2004). The premise of this dissertation is that these novels provide a basis for investigating a subcategory of witness literature called...