Minnets mönster och former: Minne och identitet i Linnea Axelssons epos Ædnan
The article addresses the problem of memory and its role in shaping ethnic identity as shown in the epic poem Ædnan (2018) by Linnea Axelsson. I approach the poem from the postcolonial perspective focusing on Swedish policy towards the Sámi people, who were deprived of their land, culture, and ident...
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ftvilniusunivojs:oai:ojs.www4063.vu.lt:article/32797 2023-09-26T15:21:24+02:00 Minnets mönster och former: Minne och identitet i Linnea Axelssons epos Ædnan Wasilewska-Chmura, Magdalena 2023-07-31 application/pdf https://www.journals.vu.lt/scandinavistica/article/view/32797 https://doi.org/10.15388/ScandinavisticaVilnensis.2023.17 eng eng Vilniaus universiteto leidykla / Vilnius University Press https://www.journals.vu.lt/scandinavistica/article/view/32797/31580 https://www.journals.vu.lt/scandinavistica/article/view/32797 doi:10.15388/ScandinavisticaVilnensis.2023.17 Copyright (c) 2023 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Scandinavistica Vilnensis; Vol 17 No 2 (2023): Memory and Remembrance in Scandinavian Cultures: Mediating Memory [Ahead of print]; 336-358 Scandinavistica Vilnensis; T. 17 Nr. 2 (2023): Memory and Remembrance in Scandinavian Cultures: Mediating Memory [Ahead of print]; 336-358 2669-0497 2029-2112 Swedish literature Linnea Axelsson Ædnan Sami culture postcolonialism info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article 2023 ftvilniusunivojs https://doi.org/10.15388/ScandinavisticaVilnensis.2023.17 2023-08-30T23:20:48Z The article addresses the problem of memory and its role in shaping ethnic identity as shown in the epic poem Ædnan (2018) by Linnea Axelsson. I approach the poem from the postcolonial perspective focusing on Swedish policy towards the Sámi people, who were deprived of their land, culture, and identity. Various patterns of memory are embodied by the complex time structure of the poem. Its three parts follow three generations of the Sámi people. The first lost their cultural identity as a result of the colonisation of Northern Sweden and the hegemonic discourse against nomadic people. They became the Other for the dominant culture, and an object for disciplinary power. Next generation, which was supposed to assimilate with the Swedish society, felt rootless because their tradition had disappeared from collective memory. The third generation started struggling for their rights as an ethnic group constructing post-memory based on material traces and oral testimonies of the Sámi tradition. Last but not least, the choice of genre is significant, as it refers to the Western archive as a paradigm for memory culture. Thus, I regard the poem as an attempt to establish and explore an archive of the Sámi, which recognises the ethnic identity of the Sámi people on other grounds than the Western tradition does. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Sweden sami sami Sámi Vilnius University Press Scholarly Journals Scandinavistica Vilnensis 17 2 336 358 |
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The article addresses the problem of memory and its role in shaping ethnic identity as shown in the epic poem Ædnan (2018) by Linnea Axelsson. I approach the poem from the postcolonial perspective focusing on Swedish policy towards the Sámi people, who were deprived of their land, culture, and identity. Various patterns of memory are embodied by the complex time structure of the poem. Its three parts follow three generations of the Sámi people. The first lost their cultural identity as a result of the colonisation of Northern Sweden and the hegemonic discourse against nomadic people. They became the Other for the dominant culture, and an object for disciplinary power. Next generation, which was supposed to assimilate with the Swedish society, felt rootless because their tradition had disappeared from collective memory. The third generation started struggling for their rights as an ethnic group constructing post-memory based on material traces and oral testimonies of the Sámi tradition. Last but not least, the choice of genre is significant, as it refers to the Western archive as a paradigm for memory culture. Thus, I regard the poem as an attempt to establish and explore an archive of the Sámi, which recognises the ethnic identity of the Sámi people on other grounds than the Western tradition does. |
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Minnets mönster och former: Minne och identitet i Linnea Axelssons epos Ædnan |
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Minnets mönster och former: Minne och identitet i Linnea Axelssons epos Ædnan |
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Minnets mönster och former: Minne och identitet i Linnea Axelssons epos Ædnan |
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