Arctic Drama to Sámi Theatre - Cultural Clashes towards Decolonisation: In Shared Dialogic Spaces
This article deals with the concept of Arctic Drama, which is about how there is a relationship between drama and cultural clashes in the perspective of shared cultures in the northern Scandinavian area, which is defined as arctic in the geographical sense. In this vast area the Sámi people historic...
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ftunivbergen:oai:bora.uib.no:11250/2937157 2023-05-15T14:48:14+02:00 Arctic Drama to Sámi Theatre - Cultural Clashes towards Decolonisation: In Shared Dialogic Spaces Arntzen, Knut Ove 2021 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2937157 https://doi.org/10.2478/mik-2021-0008 eng eng Sciendo urn:issn:1822-4555 https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2937157 https://doi.org/10.2478/mik-2021-0008 cristin:1971247 Meno istorija ir kritika. 2021, 17 (1), 93-100. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internasjonal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.no Copyright 2021 The Author(s) Meno istorija ir kritika 93-100 17 1 Journal article Peer reviewed 2021 ftunivbergen https://doi.org/10.2478/mik-2021-0008 2023-03-14T17:41:47Z This article deals with the concept of Arctic Drama, which is about how there is a relationship between drama and cultural clashes in the perspective of shared cultures in the northern Scandinavian area, which is defined as arctic in the geographical sense. In this vast area the Sámi people historically and to the present day have been living from reindeer herding in a nomadic lifestyle, giving them a close relationship to nature. Norwegians and Swedes colonised this area historically, especially the coast for fishing.There have been strong cultural clashes since the Viking ages, but colonisation mainly started later by introducing Christianity by force in the 16th century. Since the Romantic age, these ethno-cultural clashes have been reflected in drama and theatre, and some plays by Henrik Ibsen and Knut Hamsun echo these tensions. An independent theatre of the Sámi people as well as of other indigenous people in Greenland and Canada, like the Inuits, would also develop some theatrical strategies based in a dramaturgy that could be described as a “spiral dramaturgy”. Cultural independence has contributed to a decolonisation process, contributing to even out the cultural clashes in theatre and drama, which could be defined as postcolonial towards decolonisation. This article focuses on the area of arctic Scandinavia. publishedVersion Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Greenland inuits Sámi University of Bergen: Bergen Open Research Archive (BORA-UiB) Arctic Canada Greenland Art History & Criticism 17 1 93 100 |
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This article deals with the concept of Arctic Drama, which is about how there is a relationship between drama and cultural clashes in the perspective of shared cultures in the northern Scandinavian area, which is defined as arctic in the geographical sense. In this vast area the Sámi people historically and to the present day have been living from reindeer herding in a nomadic lifestyle, giving them a close relationship to nature. Norwegians and Swedes colonised this area historically, especially the coast for fishing.There have been strong cultural clashes since the Viking ages, but colonisation mainly started later by introducing Christianity by force in the 16th century. Since the Romantic age, these ethno-cultural clashes have been reflected in drama and theatre, and some plays by Henrik Ibsen and Knut Hamsun echo these tensions. An independent theatre of the Sámi people as well as of other indigenous people in Greenland and Canada, like the Inuits, would also develop some theatrical strategies based in a dramaturgy that could be described as a “spiral dramaturgy”. Cultural independence has contributed to a decolonisation process, contributing to even out the cultural clashes in theatre and drama, which could be defined as postcolonial towards decolonisation. This article focuses on the area of arctic Scandinavia. publishedVersion |
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