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dc.contributor.authorViinikka-Kallinen, Anitta
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-30T12:38:30Z
dc.date.available2020-04-30T12:38:30Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThe Kvens are a national minority in Norway long subject to a policy of assimilation. This article examines the Kven-language novels of Alf Nilsen-Børsskog as counter-narratives and descriptions of Arctic nature and the Kvens' living environment. Norwegian fiction has depicted the Kvens since the 1870s, but Nilsen-Børsskog’s series <i>Elämän jatko 1-4 (Life Goes On, 2004-2015)</i> is the first to assume a native perspective to the Kvens’ living environment and experiences. It forms an exceptional counterstory, focusing on the power of the writer’s native background instead of describing a crisis in the minority culture. The descriptions of Arctic nature in <i>Life Goes On</i> differ significantly from previous ones, where Arctic is often depicted as a place of extreme experiences and catastrophes. In addition to nature, the Kvens and Sámi have been subjected to this exoticising description. Nilsen-Børsskog instead describes the Kvens’ everyday and spiritual life, in which nature and the cultural environment are in harmony and form an important part of Kven identity.en_US
dc.descriptionJournal home page <a href=http://revue-nordiques.com/fr/>http://revue-nordiques.com/fr/</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.citationViinikka-Kallinen a. Une nature arctique qui protége et nourrit: le contre-récit des Kvènes récrit la relation au monde naturel / Arctic nature as the great reconciler and rescuer – The Kvens' counter-narrative rewrites the relationship between man and nature . Nordiques. 2019:77-94en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1718856
dc.identifier.issn1761-7677
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/18176
dc.language.isofraen_US
dc.relation.journalNordiques
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dc.rights.holderCopyright 2019 The Author(s)en_US
dc.titleUne nature arctique qui protége et nourrit: le contre-récit des Kvènes récrit la relation au monde naturel / Arctic nature as the great reconciler and rescuer – The Kvens' counter-narrative rewrites the relationship between man and natureen_US
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