Millenarianism and the Narration of the Nation: Narratives about the Korpela Movement

• Main Author: Heith, Anne
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Umeå University Library 2009
• Subjects: Korpela movement; Torne Valley; millenarianism; narrating the nation; Homi K. Bhabha; Meänmaa; Meänkieli; Bengt Pohjanen; the prophetic belt; Korpela; Journal of Northern Studies; meänkieli; Northern Sweden
• Online Access: https://journals.ub.umu.se/index.php/jns/article/view/591

The Korpela movement was a millenarian movement which emerged in Northern Sweden in the nineteen-thirties. The article explores the use of historical subject matter about the movement in newspaper journalism, literary writing, and in the branding of Toivo Korpela and the Korpela movement on the Worl...