They, you, I: Fictionality and the Greenlandic suicide situation in Niviaq Korneliussen’s Blomsterdalen

• Published in: Nordlit
• Main Author: Meyer, Pernille
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Norwegian
• Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2024
• Subjects: Niviaq Korneliussen; Blomsterdalen; suicide; fictionality; pronominal shifts; selvmord; fiktionalitet; pronominale skift; Synes; greenlandic
• Online Access: https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/7891; https://doi.org/10.7557/13.7891

In this article, I analyse Niviaq Korneliussen’s treatment of the current Greenlandic suicide situation in the novel Flower Valley (Blomsterdalen, 2020). The novel is – according to the author – «political», which raises several questions: Why write a novel instead of an opinion piece? What possibil...