Not Just a Detective Novel: Trauma, Memory and Narrative Form in Miss Smilla 's Feeling for Snow

• Main Author: Patchay, Sheena
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Unisa Press 2010
• Subjects: Greenland; Tussen; inuit
• Online Access: https://unisapressjournals.co.za/index.php/jls/article/view/15253

This article argues that Peter H0eg's "detective novel", Miss $mi/la's Feeling for Snow, contains many elements relevant to postmodern and postcolonial experience. Smilla, the main character, who seeks answers to the death of a young Inuit boy in Denmark, encounters, in a profoun...