Danish in the Faroe Islands: a post-colonial perspective

• Main Author: Mitchinson, J.
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: UCL (University College London) 2012
• Subjects: Faroe Islands; Greenland; Suðuroy; Faroes
• Online Access: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1348494/1/1348494_Complete_Thesis_Public_-_John_Mitchinson.pdf; https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1348494/

This thesis examines from a post-colonial perspective the position of the Danish language in Faroese society. It aims to demonstrate that post-colonial theory, which originally emerged as a methodology for literary analysis in the 1970s, offers a framework by which very different post-colonial lingu...