Mustan auringon paketti : myytti ja melankolia Irene Larsenin kokoelmassa Sortsolsafari
In this article, I analyse how the Sámi poet Irene Larsen rewrites Sámi oral tradition and mythology in her collection Sortsolsafari (2013, “Black Sun Safari”). I discuss how Larsen’s work differs from the mainstream of contemporary Sámi poetry and other indigenous literatures. Sortsolsafari has pos...
Published in: | AVAIN - Kirjallisuudentutkimuksen aikakauslehti |
---|---|
Main Author: | |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | Finnish |
Published: |
Kirjallisuudentutkijain Seura
2015
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202203242049 |
id |
ftjyvaeskylaenun:oai:jyx.jyu.fi:123456789/80362 |
---|---|
record_format |
openpolar |
spelling |
ftjyvaeskylaenun:oai:jyx.jyu.fi:123456789/80362 2023-05-15T18:14:48+02:00 Mustan auringon paketti : myytti ja melankolia Irene Larsenin kokoelmassa Sortsolsafari Ahvenjärvi, Kaisa 2015 application/pdf 19-33 fulltext http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202203242049 fin fin Kirjallisuudentutkijain Seura Kirjallisuudentutkimuksen aikakauslehti Avain 1795-3790 3 2015 10.30665/av.74992 Ahvenjärvi, K. (2015). Mustan auringon paketti : myytti ja melankolia Irene Larsenin kokoelmassa Sortsolsafari. Kirjallisuudentutkimuksen aikakauslehti Avain , 2015 (3), 19-33. https://doi.org/10.30665/av.74992 CONVID_25211662 TUTKAID_67325 URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202203242049 http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202203242049 In Copyright © Kirjoittaja & Kirjallisuudentutkijain seura, 2015 openAccess http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en Larsen Irene melankolia saamelaisuus norjankielinen kirjallisuus myytit lyriikka article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle publishedVersion 2015 ftjyvaeskylaenun https://doi.org/10.30665/av.74992 2023-03-01T23:59:18Z In this article, I analyse how the Sámi poet Irene Larsen rewrites Sámi oral tradition and mythology in her collection Sortsolsafari (2013, “Black Sun Safari”). I discuss how Larsen’s work differs from the mainstream of contemporary Sámi poetry and other indigenous literatures. Sortsolsafari has postmodernist features, which seldom are found in Sámi literature. Larsen situates mythological elements in present-day reality: a Sámi goddess uses a sewing machine and a shaman logs on to the Internet. These anachronisms create a comical effect. Instead of nostalgia and anti-colonialism, which traditionally characterize the depiction of the past in Sámi literature, the overall tone of Sortsolsafari is melancholic and tragicomic. In contemporary Sámi poetry, fragments of mythology are often used to construct the unity of the Sámi people. Larsen’s poems lack this collective, emancipatory dimension. Larsen uses Sámi mythology and tradition to express the speaker’s individual experience of loss and detachment. The sun, which is the mythical forefather and a collective national symbol of the Sámi, has become the black sun of depression. Instead of relying on national-romantic nostalgia Larsen constructs the past by using banal anachronisms and individual melancholia. peerReviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Sámi JYX - Jyväskylä University Digital Archive AVAIN - Kirjallisuudentutkimuksen aikakauslehti 3 19 33 |
institution |
Open Polar |
collection |
JYX - Jyväskylä University Digital Archive |
op_collection_id |
ftjyvaeskylaenun |
language |
Finnish |
topic |
Larsen Irene melankolia saamelaisuus norjankielinen kirjallisuus myytit lyriikka |
spellingShingle |
Larsen Irene melankolia saamelaisuus norjankielinen kirjallisuus myytit lyriikka Ahvenjärvi, Kaisa Mustan auringon paketti : myytti ja melankolia Irene Larsenin kokoelmassa Sortsolsafari |
topic_facet |
Larsen Irene melankolia saamelaisuus norjankielinen kirjallisuus myytit lyriikka |
description |
In this article, I analyse how the Sámi poet Irene Larsen rewrites Sámi oral tradition and mythology in her collection Sortsolsafari (2013, “Black Sun Safari”). I discuss how Larsen’s work differs from the mainstream of contemporary Sámi poetry and other indigenous literatures. Sortsolsafari has postmodernist features, which seldom are found in Sámi literature. Larsen situates mythological elements in present-day reality: a Sámi goddess uses a sewing machine and a shaman logs on to the Internet. These anachronisms create a comical effect. Instead of nostalgia and anti-colonialism, which traditionally characterize the depiction of the past in Sámi literature, the overall tone of Sortsolsafari is melancholic and tragicomic. In contemporary Sámi poetry, fragments of mythology are often used to construct the unity of the Sámi people. Larsen’s poems lack this collective, emancipatory dimension. Larsen uses Sámi mythology and tradition to express the speaker’s individual experience of loss and detachment. The sun, which is the mythical forefather and a collective national symbol of the Sámi, has become the black sun of depression. Instead of relying on national-romantic nostalgia Larsen constructs the past by using banal anachronisms and individual melancholia. peerReviewed |
format |
Article in Journal/Newspaper |
author |
Ahvenjärvi, Kaisa |
author_facet |
Ahvenjärvi, Kaisa |
author_sort |
Ahvenjärvi, Kaisa |
title |
Mustan auringon paketti : myytti ja melankolia Irene Larsenin kokoelmassa Sortsolsafari |
title_short |
Mustan auringon paketti : myytti ja melankolia Irene Larsenin kokoelmassa Sortsolsafari |
title_full |
Mustan auringon paketti : myytti ja melankolia Irene Larsenin kokoelmassa Sortsolsafari |
title_fullStr |
Mustan auringon paketti : myytti ja melankolia Irene Larsenin kokoelmassa Sortsolsafari |
title_full_unstemmed |
Mustan auringon paketti : myytti ja melankolia Irene Larsenin kokoelmassa Sortsolsafari |
title_sort |
mustan auringon paketti : myytti ja melankolia irene larsenin kokoelmassa sortsolsafari |
publisher |
Kirjallisuudentutkijain Seura |
publishDate |
2015 |
url |
http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202203242049 |
genre |
Sámi |
genre_facet |
Sámi |
op_relation |
Kirjallisuudentutkimuksen aikakauslehti Avain 1795-3790 3 2015 10.30665/av.74992 Ahvenjärvi, K. (2015). Mustan auringon paketti : myytti ja melankolia Irene Larsenin kokoelmassa Sortsolsafari. Kirjallisuudentutkimuksen aikakauslehti Avain , 2015 (3), 19-33. https://doi.org/10.30665/av.74992 CONVID_25211662 TUTKAID_67325 URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202203242049 http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202203242049 |
op_rights |
In Copyright © Kirjoittaja & Kirjallisuudentutkijain seura, 2015 openAccess http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en |
op_doi |
https://doi.org/10.30665/av.74992 |
container_title |
AVAIN - Kirjallisuudentutkimuksen aikakauslehti |
container_issue |
3 |
container_start_page |
19 |
op_container_end_page |
33 |
_version_ |
1766187803440316416 |