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Past and Present Crimes in Sápmi: Lars Pettersson and Olivier Truc

Ahlin, Lena

Journal of popular culture, 2021-12, Vol.54 (6), p.1254-1270 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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  • Título:
    Past and Present Crimes in Sápmi: Lars Pettersson and Olivier Truc
  • Autor: Ahlin, Lena
  • Assuntos: Colonialism ; Crime fiction ; Detectives ; General Literary studies ; Humaniora och konst ; Humanities and the Arts ; Identity ; Languages and Literature ; Literary criticism ; Litteraturvetenskap ; Narrative techniques ; Native culture ; Native peoples ; Pettersson, Lars ; Språk och litteratur ; Time ; Transnationalism ; Truc, Olivier
  • É parte de: Journal of popular culture, 2021-12, Vol.54 (6), p.1254-1270
  • Descrição: This article explores representations of Sápmi in Lars Pettersson’s Kautokeino, a Bloody Knife (2012) and Olivier Truc’s Forty Days Without Shadow: An Arctic Thriller (2014). The analysis focuses on how a distinct sense of place is created in these works through representations of Sápmi as an indigenous, transnational space that continues to be haunted by a colonial past. Simultaneously remote and transnational, Sápmi is a literary space in which (part) Sami detectives look for clues to the present crimes as well as to their own identity. Borders are significant in this transnational setting, and the analysis covers borders between nation states, cultures, and the temporal boundaries between past and present. I argue that crimes in the novels’ present call up the ongoing legacy of crimes in the region’s past, mobilizing the oppressive nature of the relationship between the central authorities and the Indigenous population. Finally, the novels challenge the national myth of Sweden as a society characterized by egalitarianism. By employing the setting of Lapland, the authors are able to address sensitive issues related to the treatment of Indigenous people that have until recently been erased from official discourse.
  • Editor: Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
  • Idioma: Inglês
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