The voice of a “tongueless” periphery

• Main Author: Enikő Molnár Bodrogi
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Romanian Association for Baltic and Nordic Studies 2014
• Subjects: minority language; policy of assimilation; meänkieli; stigmatization; linguistic and cultural identity; postcolonial discourse; litt; demo; Tornio
• Online Access: https://f-origin.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/5711/files/2018/12/14.Bodrogi.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/965a5c0c48d241f98de36df61d1d6c30

In my study, I am going to examine the relationship between language, politics and poetry in the context of identity development concerning the Meänkieli speaking community living in the Torne/ Tornio Valley. The Torne River Valley (or Tornedalian) Finns were cut off from Finland in 1809, when Swede...