Határjárók a fennoskandiai kisebbségi irodalmakban
Regionauts in Fennoscandian Minority Literatures

With Special View upon Sami, Meänkieli and Kven Literatures

Summary/Abstract: In this study I analyze the interconnections between border, language and identity in some literary works written in minority languages in Fennoscandia (Meänkieli, Sami and Kven). I concentrate on authors who write (also) in their native languages, and who can be considered as regionauts not only from a cultural but also from a linguistic point of view, as they commute between their minority and majority languages both as ordinary people and as writers. In this study I have been looking for answers for the following questions: What kind of actual and imagined borders determine the life of these minorities? How do they relate to those borders in their everyday life at an individual and collective level? How firm are the virtual borders created by minority and majority populations and what are the consequences of this crossing of borders? As far as the theoretical basis of the study is concerned, on the one hand I analyze the topic from the perspective of microhistorical research, while on the other hand I apply the terms of border and multilocality as used in ethnology.

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