Queer Narratives in Nordic Sami Literature: Coming-Out Narratives and Final Exposures in Savior of the Lost Children (2008) and Himlabrand (2021)

Pub Date : 2023-04-03 DOI:10.1080/08038740.2023.2207040
Cathrine Bjerknes
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ABSTRACT This article explores how two queer narratives in Nordic Sami literature challenge, expand and change norms and stereotypes related to queer indigenous experiences. Characteristic for these narratives is the ambition to highlight taboos and challenge stereotypes in Sami contexts. In the article, I explore the characters’ coming-out processes and relate them to larger narrative traditions. To shed light on the obstacles the characters meet in the process of coming out to themselves and to their communities, and the genres through which the stories are told, I turn to gender scholars Judith Roof, Andrea Gutenberg and Anne Mulhall. I make use of their perspectives to explore whether the coming-out processes take different shapes when the individuals in question are Sami and thus doubly minoritized. Insisting on the importance of coming out not only to oneself, but also to the Sami community at large, they take on an important activist role, transcending the perspective of the individual. The primary texts are the young-adult novel Himlabrand (“Heavenly fire”) (2021) by Moa Backe Åstot and the blog novel The Savior of the Lost Children (2008) by Sigbjørn Skåden.
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北欧萨米文学中的酷儿叙事:《迷失儿童的救世主》(2008)和《喜马拉雅兰》(2021)中的出柜叙事和最终揭露
本文探讨北欧萨米文学中的两种酷儿叙事如何挑战、扩展和改变与土著酷儿经历相关的规范和刻板印象。这些叙述的特点是要突出禁忌,挑战萨米人的刻板印象。在本文中,我将探讨角色的出柜过程,并将其与更大的叙事传统联系起来。为了阐明这些角色在向自己和他们的社区走出来的过程中遇到的障碍,以及故事讲述的类型,我求助于性别学者朱迪思·鲁夫(Judith Roof)、安德里亚·古腾堡(Andrea Gutenberg)和安妮·穆尔霍尔(Anne Mulhall)。我利用他们的观点来探索,当所讨论的个体是萨米人,因此是双重少数民族时,出柜过程是否会有不同的形式。她们坚持出柜的重要性,不只是对自己,也要对整个萨米社群,她们超越个人的观点,扮演重要的行动者角色。主要文本是Moa Backe Åstot的青年小说Himlabrand(“Heavenly fire”)(2021)和Sigbjørn sk den的博客小说《The Savior of The Lost Children》(2008)。
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