Ethnicity, Cultural Identity and Bordering : A Tornedalian Negro
This article examines how experiences of internal colonialism may be expressed in literary writing, through an analysis of Bengt Pohjanen's poem Rattipaat (Ragheads). The article discusses the poem and its embedding in a Meankieli (Tornedalian Finnish) grammar book, Meankielen kramatiikki (Pohj...
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ftumeauniv:oai:DiVA.org:umu-63051 2023-11-05T03:43:24+01:00 Ethnicity, Cultural Identity and Bordering : A Tornedalian Negro Heith, Anne 2012 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-63051 https://doi.org/10.7592/FEJF2012.52.heith eng eng Umeå universitet, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper Folklore, 2012, 52, s. 85-108 orcid:0000-0002-0682-2668 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-63051 doi:10.7592/FEJF2012.52.heith ISI:000313756100006 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Swedish Tornedalians minority status Meänkieli internal colonialism colonial complicity vernacular cosmopolitanism Humanities Humaniora Article in journal info:eu-repo/semantics/article text 2012 ftumeauniv https://doi.org/10.7592/FEJF2012.52.heith 2023-10-11T22:36:25Z This article examines how experiences of internal colonialism may be expressed in literary writing, through an analysis of Bengt Pohjanen's poem Rattipaat (Ragheads). The article discusses the poem and its embedding in a Meankieli (Tornedalian Finnish) grammar book, Meankielen kramatiikki (Pohjanen & Kentta 1996). The theme explored is the tensions arising between homogenising modernity in a Swedish nation-building context and the particular situation of the Tornedalian Finnish minority in northern Sweden. Colonial complicity and vernacular cosmopolitanism are key concepts used in describing these tensions. The article proposes that the poem represents a remapping of the 'national' and the 'international' as allegiances are established between the Swedish national minority of the Tornedalians and migrants in European metropolitan centres. Hence the Tornedalians in the northern borderlands are presented as symbolic citizens in new migrant cartographies. This implies that a new myth of belonging is created, which unifies national minorities with metropolitan migrants. gästforskarperiod Hugo Valentin centrum, Uppsala universitet, jan.-febr. och nov.-dec. 2012 Border Aesthetics Article in Journal/Newspaper meänkieli Northern Sweden Umeå University: Publications (DiVA) Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore 52 85 108 |
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This article examines how experiences of internal colonialism may be expressed in literary writing, through an analysis of Bengt Pohjanen's poem Rattipaat (Ragheads). The article discusses the poem and its embedding in a Meankieli (Tornedalian Finnish) grammar book, Meankielen kramatiikki (Pohjanen & Kentta 1996). The theme explored is the tensions arising between homogenising modernity in a Swedish nation-building context and the particular situation of the Tornedalian Finnish minority in northern Sweden. Colonial complicity and vernacular cosmopolitanism are key concepts used in describing these tensions. The article proposes that the poem represents a remapping of the 'national' and the 'international' as allegiances are established between the Swedish national minority of the Tornedalians and migrants in European metropolitan centres. Hence the Tornedalians in the northern borderlands are presented as symbolic citizens in new migrant cartographies. This implies that a new myth of belonging is created, which unifies national minorities with metropolitan migrants. gästforskarperiod Hugo Valentin centrum, Uppsala universitet, jan.-febr. och nov.-dec. 2012 Border Aesthetics |
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Ethnicity, Cultural Identity and Bordering : A Tornedalian Negro |
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Ethnicity, Cultural Identity and Bordering : A Tornedalian Negro |
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