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2011
Minor subjects/Minor literature: maja lee langvad’s find holger danske and the search for danishness.
Minor subjects/Minor literature: maja lee langvad’s find holger danske and the search for danishness.
한국비교문학회
Kim Su Rasmussen
논문정보
- Publisher
- 비교문학
- Issue Date
- 2011-06-30
- Keywords
- -
- Citation
- -
- Source
- -
- Journal Title
- -
- Volume
- 54
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 225
- End Page
- 249
- DOI
- ISSN
- 12250910
Abstract
This article focuses on the Korean-born Danish adoptee poet Maja Lee Langvad’s work Find Holger Danske (2006), and Gilles Deleuze and F?lix Guattari’s notion of minor literature. Maja Lee Langvad’s book is an ironic-experimental as well as lyrical exploration of the question where to find Danish-ness (and where not to find it) at the margins ? in an epoch during which the very notion of Danish-ness seems to be under threat. It is furthermore a reflection on the author’s own minority position ? that of the transracial adoptee. Transracial adoptee subjectivity is one of the most intriguing forms of migrancy, above all because it is rarely categorized as a form of migration. Yet the process involves subjects radically deterritorialized and uprooted. In Lee Langvad’s texts, a strange traversing between invisibility and visibility, as well as minority and majority, is captured with an acute urgency ? and all the more so because the book foregrounds the recent political climate in Denmark ? one that within the last two decades has become increasingly paranoid and xenophobic. Our argument is that her book effectively deconstructs the concept of Danish-ness while foregrounding marginalised subjectivities, such as the author’s own particular subject position.
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- KCI
- 비교문학
저자 정보
| 이름 | 소속 |
|---|---|
| Kim Su Rasmussen | 철학과 |