La tourbe, les trolls et le marché. Thorshavn à Tórshavn, ou William Heinesen dans les limbes de la culture coloniale canonique

• Published in: Nordiques
• Main Author: Pedersen, Christian Bank
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Association Norden 2020
• Subjects: littérature scandinave; Ile Féroé; Heinesen (William); Danemark; Scandinavian literature; Faroe Islands; Denmark; litt; lang; Thorshavn; Tórshavn
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/nordiques/602

In this article, I consider the status of the Faroese writer William Heinesen (1900-1991) in relation to Danish (canonical) culture and literature: having written all of his work in Danish, this major Scandinavian writer of the twentieth century is nowhere to be found in the official Kulturkanon pub...