Destabiliserende stemmer:Om forhandlingen af dansk kulturel erindring i Kim Leine og Iben Mondrups grønlandstrilogier

• Main Author: Dybdal, Emilie
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Danish
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: /dk/atira/pure/core/keywords/FacultyOfHumanities; Det Humanistiske Fakultet; Kim Leine; Iben Mondrup; Grønland; Danmark; kolonialisme; kulturel erindring; exceptionalisme; narratologi; dansk grønlandslitteratur; difficult heritage; Greenland
• Online Access: https://curis.ku.dk/portal/da/publications/destabiliserende-stemmer(6433a795-6e2d-4a43-8679-202a6310d90d).html; https://tidsskrift.dk/NORDICA/article/view/144867

While the dominant narrative has long been that Danish colonialism in Greenland was gentle and humane – in fact, almost not existing – increasingly, other interpretations are brought forward which put Denmark in a far from glorious and charitable position. The colonial past has, with a term from Sharon Macdonald, become difficult heritage, and a negotiation of Danish cultural memory is thus taking place. Two authors who actively participate in this process are Kim Leine and Iben Mondrup: Both have published several novels which deal with Denmark’s involvement in Greenland and which obviously seek to problematize the idea of Denmark as a benevolent colonizer. In this article, I examine how Leine’s The Colony of Good Hope (2018) and Mondrup’s Tabita (2020) contribute to destabilizing this narrative, with a particular focus on the use of multiperspectivity. Furthermore, I argue that the novels be read in a decolonial context.