Aednan (eBook)
448 Seiten
Pushkin Press (Verlag)
978-1-80533-132-2 (ISBN)
Linnea Axelsson is a Sámi-Swedish writer, born in the province of North Bothnia in Sweden. In 2009, she earned a Ph.D in art history from Umeå University. In 2018, she was awarded the August Prize for Ædnan. She lives in Stockholm, Sweden.
In Northern Sami, the word dnan means the land, the ground, the earth. In this majestic verse novel, Linnea Axelsson chronicles the fates of two Indigenous Sami families, telling of their struggle and persistence over a century of colonial displacement, loss and resistance. It begins with Ristin and Ber-Jona, who are trying to care for their troubled young sons while migrating their reindeer herd in northernmost Scandinavia during the 1910s. The coming of the Swedes brings new borders that lay waste to Sami customs and migration paths - and mean devastating separation for this family. In the 1970s, Lise grapples with how she was forced to adapt to Swedish society, haunted by her time in a 'nomad school' where she was deprived of her ancestors' language and history. Lise's daughter, Sandra, seeks to reclaim that heritage, becoming an activist struggling for reparations from the Swedish state. As one generation succeeds another, their voices interweave and form a spellbinding hymn to lands and traditions lost and reclaimed. Written in sparse, glittering verse that flows like a current,? dnan is a profound and moving epic of Sami life.
Through the Rostočearru mountain pass. Spring 1913
(ber-joná)
The expanses
their boundlessness
the reindeer herder cairns
–
Backs that burned
and feet
like bundles
–
Beating
our canes
to frighten
off the wolverine
–
On a sunny spring hill
rested our
pregnant does
–
We heard
heartbeats in the ground
Faint
beneath the inherited
migration paths
–
our son Aslat and I
–
Aslat would follow
the future’s ground
–
It had not yet been
born into the world:
It would come
from the lives of our does
–
The wind had a long talk
with the tent’s tarp
–
We look up
through the smoke hole
see the clouds
–
gliding by
–
A wide-awake doe
shakes her coat
until it whirls
Another stretches
her joints
–
They’re grazing
So they will
stay calm for at least
another hour
–
Once they’ve woken up
properly
they’ll keep
heading west
–
Into the mountains
to the calving grounds
–
Teeth mashing
milling their feed
The calves in wetness
treading
the heat
of the as-yet unborn
–
Our dark-headed son’s
landscape
–
Ski stroke by ski stroke
song after song
we spread out the
landscape of our kin
in his body
–
Singing forth
the world around us
–
We sang the mountain
that looked like
an old woman
–
The hiding places
and fear
we sang
when the Swede
had gone to war
–
Against our
well-worn drum
–
The sky brightened
And we sang
father’s father
–
sun
in hand
–
The hot
southern cliffs where
the spring bears
had their daytime dens
were sung forth
–
The meltwater
rippling
by the windbreak
–
Our son’s light
singing voice
in which our kin’s and
the land’s memories
wished to fasten
–
Glided away
like the clouds toward you
Ristin
–
Trailing far behind
With the other families
headed for our spring camp
–
And the weak
boy
who had
to travel with you
and not us
–
His gaze like
the sea
which I had taught
myself to love
–
A cleansing bath
that gaze of his
–
We sang the work
and the reindeer
who led our family
apart
–
The reindeer who
taught us to use
the tundra
...Erscheint lt. Verlag | 25.1.2024 |
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Übersetzer | Saskia Vogel |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen | |
Schlagworte | Independent People Halldor Laxness • northern Scandinavia • novel colonial resistance • novel in verse • Osebol Marit Kapla • Sámi book novel • Sámi fiction • Sámi indigenous book • Sámi people book • Stolen Ann-Helen Laestadius • Swedish colonialism • The Unseen Roy Jacobsen |
ISBN-10 | 1-80533-132-9 / 1805331329 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-80533-132-2 / 9781805331322 |
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