{"id":515,"date":"2020-12-06T09:44:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T09:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dlf.uzh.ch\/sites\/skandinavien-postkolonial\/?p=515"},"modified":"2021-03-05T08:08:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T08:08:08","slug":"review-thisted-kirsten-imperiets-genfaerd-profeterne-i-evighedsfjorden-og-den-dansk-gronlandske-historieskrivning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dlf.uzh.ch\/sites\/skandinavien-postkolonial\/review-thisted-kirsten-imperiets-genfaerd-profeterne-i-evighedsfjorden-og-den-dansk-gronlandske-historieskrivning\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Thisted, Kirsten. Imperiets genf\u00e6rd: Profeterne i Evighedsfjorden og den dansk-gr\u00f8nlandske historieskrivning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Thisted, Kirsten \u00bbImperiets genf\u00e6rd: Profeterne i Evighedsfjorden og den dansk-gr\u00f8nlandske historieskrivning\u00ab<\/a>. In: Nordlit 35<\/em>, (2015), 105\u2013121.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kirsten Thisted shows in her well-structured article that ambivalence is what distinguishes Leine\u2019s Profeterne i Evighedsfjorden<\/em> from the popular narratives about Danish-Greenlandic history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The aim and main question of her article is phrased as followed: \u00bbDet skal [\u2026] i det f\u00f8lgende unders\u00f8ges, hvordan romanen forholder sig til de g\u00e6ngse narrativer om dansk kolonialisme i Gr\u00f8nland, samt hvordan den bidrager til den aktuelle forhandling af Rigf\u00e6llesskabet og fort\u00e6llingen om den dansk-gr\u00f8nlandske historie (105).\u00ab Thisted shortly explains Kim Leine\u2019s relation to Greenland and gives a summary of Profeterne i Evighedsfjorden<\/em> before comparing it with Isbj\u00f8rnen<\/em> by Henrik Pontoppidan. Then she turns to the narrations of Danish colonialism. Here she points out that in both narrations – Denmark as the good colonial power<\/em> and Denmark as the bad colonial power<\/em> – Denmark is the operating participant and takes centre stage. Contrary to expectations, Leine\u2019s way of narrating Danish colonialism is different. As Thisted shows in her chapter Leine og kilderne<\/em> (108ff.), Leine is taking in Greenlandic sources as a basis for his work. By doing so he gives Greenlanders a voice too and arranges his narration more ambivalently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After that Thisted discusses the two narrative modes (revolutionary) romance<\/em> and tragedy<\/em>; Romance<\/em> being the preferred narrative mode in anti-colonialist literature. This narrative mode is based upon a revolutionary hero which incarnates the positive values of the colonised that had been suppressed by the colonists, and promises the reestablishment of an own nation by winning over the colonists. In the narrative mode of tragedy the plot does not follow the will of the hero and often ends in a bigger conflict than the initial one. The hero cannot control the story\u2019s actions because they are controlled by other powers (e. g. natural power, gods or coincidence). Kirsten Thisted then goes on answering her main question by demonstrating that Kim Leine\u2019s work shows characteristics of romance<\/em> firstly in the book\u2019s dedication \u00bb<\/em>Tilegnet Gr\u00f8nlands Hjemmefjorden\u00ab<\/em> which sets Profeterne i Evighedsfjorden<\/em> in a political context and secondly in the hope of the main character Morten Falck for a free Greenlandic nation. Nevertheless Profeterne i Evighedsfjorden<\/em> ends up as tragedy<\/em> because it lacks a revolutionary hero <\/em>which brings his mission to an end. Furthermore Leine\u2019s work\u2014as Thisted showed earlier \u2014is based on Greenlandic sources which go back to the colonial time where there was no basis for a nostalgic longing for the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, in the chapter Inf\u00f8dte og blandinger<\/em> (113ff.) Thisted demonstrates once again the ambivalence in Leine\u2019s work with well-chosen and demonstrative examples. She claims that Leine puts the intimate relatedness of power and countervailing power in the centre of his work, thereby he defies the criticism that he only expands the bad sides of the colonial era between Denmark and Greenland. No wonder that Kirsten Thisted’s points answering her minor questions are based upon the ambivalence Kim Leine uses in his work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kirsten Thisted shows in her well-structured article that ambivalence is what distinguishes Leine\u2019s Profeterne i Evighedsfjorden from the popular narratives about Danish-Greenlandic history.<\/p>\n

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