The Black Book of Saami Literature. About Niillas Holmberg’s Volume Juolgevuoððu (Barefoot) Cover Image

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The Black Book of Saami Literature. About Niillas Holmberg’s Volume Juolgevuoððu (Barefoot)

Author(s): Johanna Domokos
Subject(s): Other Language Literature
Published by: Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület
Keywords: Niillas Holmberg; artivism; Saami poetry; earth; anthropocene; ecocriticism; double rhetoric

Summary/Abstract: The 2018 volume of poems by Niillas Holmberg, a prominent young representative of Saami literature, raises one of the most important questions for Saami: whose property and what their home became, and how this affects the Saami themselves? How can we restore man’s humility to the earth, the natural world, his intimate relationship with them? How can we question the order of power deeply ingrained in us? Moreover, how can we roll back to another starting point of our far-flung, branched-out paths that make it impossible for man to exist for himself and his surroundings? Niillas Holmberg contemplates on this necessary local and global metanoia. With this volume, published as his sixth volume, at the age of 28, the author dissects the shifted values and power not only interculturally but also intraculturally.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: IX
  • Page Range: 13-25
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Hungarian