In:Exploring NORDIC COOL in Literary History
Edited by Gunilla Hermansson and Jens Lohfert Jørgensen
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 15] 2020
► pp. 127–142
Indigenous cool
Performativity and place-making in Sami literature, art and music
Published online: 1 December 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.15.08hei
https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.15.08hei
Article outline
- Performing Sapmi
- Anders Sunna’s and Sofia Jannok’s contributions to a Sami anticolonial narrative
- Summing up
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