tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041385492321829905.post1825695242053887519..comments2024-02-03T10:27:22.640+00:00Comments on Nordic Voices in Translation: Nordic or notDavid McDuffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01515361544462041148noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041385492321829905.post-46717956234293983222017-04-27T09:41:42.187+01:002017-04-27T09:41:42.187+01:00Please see my new novel "Ivalu´s Color"
...Please see my new novel "Ivalu´s Color"<br />https://www.amazon.com/Ivalus-Color-Nauja-Lynge/dp/0996748008/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1493282465&sr=8-1&keywords=Ivalu%C2%B4s+ColorAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09597192045745846850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041385492321829905.post-15638013006191650912009-06-30T21:55:10.524+01:002009-06-30T21:55:10.524+01:00For the sake of completion, a few more Googleable ...For the sake of completion, a few more Googleable names of Greenlandic authors from the Langgård article: Else Løvstrøm, Ernu Nielsen, Vivi Lyngve Petrussen, all prose writers from what I gather. Also the poet Kelly Berthelsen.Eric Dickenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11473407452357469485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041385492321829905.post-68045706818129985342009-06-30T19:05:19.872+01:002009-06-30T19:05:19.872+01:00I've been looking through Karen Langgård's...I've been looking through Karen Langgård's article. It is not the usual one-sided postcolonial article about novels written in English by scholars at metropolitan English departments in the UK, the USA or Australia. And it is by no means forbidding.<br /><br />I support the idea of postcolonial studies (not least as a way of looking at the Baltics) as long as it is not an excuse for Eric Dickenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11473407452357469485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041385492321829905.post-5892779530725477422009-06-30T15:59:02.929+01:002009-06-30T15:59:02.929+01:00OK, thanks for the link, Lev.
I see lots of books...OK, thanks for the link, Lev.<br /><br />I see lots of books on oceanography, Norse history, polar exploration and the like, but not much evidence of English or other translations of literary works by Greenlandic authors, which is what I was really looking for...David McDuffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01515361544462041148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041385492321829905.post-68808384788989558432009-06-30T14:54:25.157+01:002009-06-30T14:54:25.157+01:00Gigapedia.Org redirects to Gigapedia.Com and when ...Gigapedia.Org redirects to Gigapedia.Com and when you search there you go to Gigapedia.info... :-) Visit "http://gigapedia.info/1/Greenland" (you must log in)!Лев Грицюк | Lev Hrytsyukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04417442293325082648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041385492321829905.post-2404902039870925612009-06-30T13:01:06.901+01:002009-06-30T13:01:06.901+01:00This is an argument for having a "central&quo...This is an argument for having a "central" Nordic Voices email address, I think. Perhaps we should establish one? <br /><br />The article sounds interesting, though the "post-colonial" aspect sounds a bit forbidding. I have also gone fishing, as you suggest.David McDuffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01515361544462041148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041385492321829905.post-27332986658443448872009-06-30T12:42:06.424+01:002009-06-30T12:42:06.424+01:00I sent an e-mail to the Lang&Lit Dept at the U...I sent an e-mail to the Lang&Lit Dept at the University of Greenland and got a reply from one Karen Langgård within 15 minutes (!) of my sending my query. If you want a copy of the interesting pdf article that I'm reading right now, about Greenlandic literature in a postcolonial context, send an e-mail to kala@slm.uni.gl . Unlike the "kala" in Finnish and Estonian, this one Eric Dickenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11473407452357469485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041385492321829905.post-18553303996685845472009-06-30T12:28:37.191+01:002009-06-30T12:28:37.191+01:00On that search I only get 6 items - which Gigapedi...On that search I only get 6 items - which Gigapedia.org are you browsing? :-)David McDuffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01515361544462041148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041385492321829905.post-44625148128766249042009-06-30T10:48:50.378+01:002009-06-30T10:48:50.378+01:00Browse Gigapedia.Org. The search "Greenland&q...Browse Gigapedia.Org. The search "Greenland" gives 118 items so far... :-) ("Sisamanik teqeqqulik" sounds cool...)Лев Грицюк | Lev Hrytsyukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04417442293325082648noreply@blogger.com