Heroes in Miniature
This paper examines the five different Thule postal stamps which circulated from 1935 to 1936 between the trading post of Thule (which is the Danish name for the settlement of Uummannaq in Northwest Greenland, today Thule Air Base) and the Cape York post office in Copenhagen. The images on the stamp...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:6720f05f5a9543498159612c9fbcbe7a 2023-05-15T16:26:13+02:00 Heroes in Miniature Anne Hemkendreis 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.7557/13.6321 https://doaj.org/article/6720f05f5a9543498159612c9fbcbe7a EN NO eng nor Septentrio Academic Publishing https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/6321 https://doaj.org/toc/0809-1668 https://doaj.org/toc/1503-2086 doi:10.7557/13.6321 0809-1668 1503-2086 https://doaj.org/article/6720f05f5a9543498159612c9fbcbe7a Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, Vol 49, Iss 1 (2022) Ice Knud Rasmussen Stamps Thule Greenland Image Vehicles Norwegian literature PT8301-9155 article 2022 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.7557/13.6321 2022-12-31T00:00:54Z This paper examines the five different Thule postal stamps which circulated from 1935 to 1936 between the trading post of Thule (which is the Danish name for the settlement of Uummannaq in Northwest Greenland, today Thule Air Base) and the Cape York post office in Copenhagen. The images on the stamps not only concentrate and visualize the complex colonial history between Greenland and Denmark. Instead, they also dynamize and preserve historical power relations by making them physically and visually tangible to this day. The stamps bear witness to infra-structures of cultural exchange, which were strongly controlled by the Danish side. They are often overlooked testimonies of everyday communication and mark colonial relations as ongoing and still powerful forces. What is more, the stamps provide their own agency as cultural-creating forces which sheds a new light to the history of Western modernization and its heritage. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland Thule Air Thule Air Base Thule Uummannaq Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Cape York ENVELOPE(-87.000,-87.000,73.801,73.801) Greenland Rasmussen ENVELOPE(-64.084,-64.084,-65.248,-65.248) Thule Air Base ENVELOPE(-68.703,-68.703,76.531,76.531) Nordlit 49 1 1 12 |
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This paper examines the five different Thule postal stamps which circulated from 1935 to 1936 between the trading post of Thule (which is the Danish name for the settlement of Uummannaq in Northwest Greenland, today Thule Air Base) and the Cape York post office in Copenhagen. The images on the stamps not only concentrate and visualize the complex colonial history between Greenland and Denmark. Instead, they also dynamize and preserve historical power relations by making them physically and visually tangible to this day. The stamps bear witness to infra-structures of cultural exchange, which were strongly controlled by the Danish side. They are often overlooked testimonies of everyday communication and mark colonial relations as ongoing and still powerful forces. What is more, the stamps provide their own agency as cultural-creating forces which sheds a new light to the history of Western modernization and its heritage. |
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