Minna Johanna Niemi
Biographic Data
| ID | 2267830 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Minna Johanna Niemi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Minna Johanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Niemi |
| SIGNATURE | NIEMI M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | UiT The Arctic University of Norway |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4554-8603 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Politics of Shame in Musa Okwonga’s One of Them
Picaros and shapeshifters
I read GauZ's Standing Heavy in connection with the postcolonial picaresque style, as GauZ's Ivorian immigrant characters are robust survivors who see through the French system and criticize it through their anti-idealist viewpoints.This cynical view, often disclosed through roguish language, provides the author the possibility of expressing aggression toward the unfair system and highlighting the characters' need to find their agency within its …
Contested political alliances in fortress Europe
Helon Habila's Travellers was written as a response to the refugee crisis in 2015, and it narrates loosely connected stories of African asylum seekers precariously travelling in Southern and Western European countries seeking shelter.This article discusses the novel's representation of Europeans and migrants acting together by drawing from Jacques Rancire's theorization of dissensus as a tool to challenge existing political hierarchies by creatin…
Critical Representation of Neoliberal Capitalism and Uneven Development in Tsitsi Dangarembga's This Mournable Body
This article focuses on Tsitsi Dangarembga’s novel This Mournable Body (2018), which\ncompletes her trilogy on Tambudzai Sigauke’s life story in relation to the neoliberal\npolitical order in contemporary Zimbabwe. The country has been recently referred to as\ncultivating ultra-neoliberal policies, and, in such a framework, state repression becomes\nreplaced by state negligence towards citizens’ economic survival. In This Mournable Body,\nneolibe…
Totalitarian politics and individual responsibility
Hannah Arendt’s writings concerning individual responsibility create an important – and under-examined – context for reading J. M. Coetzee’s oeuvre, particularly his novel Waiting for the Barbarians. For Arendt, when a society fails to offer ethical codes of conduct to follow, people should determine those codes by themselves, since morality concerns people in their individuality during totalitarian times. Arendt’s ideas bear important similariti…
Challenging moral corruption in the postcolony
This article focuses on Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968), which portrays a nameless protagonist who clings to his own ethics as he resists corruption in Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana in the 1960s, an instance of what Achille Mbembe has called the postcolony. This situation bears comparison with Hannah Arendt’s political philosophy, which emphasises individual responsibility in political situations in which common democratic nor…
Revising postcolonial trauma
Michael Rothberg has suggested that there cannot be an ahistorical, all-encompassing trauma theory, and that our theorization of trauma must constantly evolve towards a model which better meets the needs of the current globalized world, in which structural violence and traumatic events often occur in close conjunction to one another. Along these lines, this article's analysis of Ghanaian writer Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments and Somali author Nuruddi…
Witnessing Contemporary Somalia from Abroad
Witnessing Contemporary Somalia from AbroadAn Interview with Nuruddin Farah Minna Niemi (bio) The following interview was conducted at the Gothenburg Book Fair in Sweden in September 2010. This event, which concentrated on African literature, gathered together approximately seventy authors from many African countries as well as locations throughout the African diaspora. Somali author Nuruddin Farah was invited to participate in this event as one …
Challenging moral corruption in the postcolony
This article focuses on Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968), which portrays a nameless protagonist who clings to his own ethics as he resists corruption in Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana in the 1960s, an instance of what Achille Mbembe has called the postcolony. This situation bears comparison with Hannah Arendt’s political philosophy, which emphasises individual responsibility in political situations in which common democratic nor…
Picaros and shapeshifters
I read GauZ's Standing Heavy in connection with the postcolonial picaresque style, as GauZ's Ivorian immigrant characters are robust survivors who see through the French system and criticize it through their anti-idealist viewpoints.This cynical view, often disclosed through roguish language, provides the author the possibility of expressing aggression toward the unfair system and highlighting the characters' need to find their agency within its …
Revising postcolonial trauma
Michael Rothberg has suggested that there cannot be an ahistorical, all-encompassing trauma theory, and that our theorization of trauma must constantly evolve towards a model which better meets the needs of the current globalized world, in which structural violence and traumatic events often occur in close conjunction to one another. Along these lines, this article's analysis of Ghanaian writer Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments and Somali author Nuruddi…
Witnessing Contemporary Somalia from Abroad
Witnessing Contemporary Somalia from AbroadAn Interview with Nuruddin Farah Minna Niemi (bio) The following interview was conducted at the Gothenburg Book Fair in Sweden in September 2010. This event, which concentrated on African literature, gathered together approximately seventy authors from many African countries as well as locations throughout the African diaspora. Somali author Nuruddin Farah was invited to participate in this event as one …
Revising postcolonial trauma
Michael Rothberg has suggested that there cannot be an ahistorical, all-encompassing trauma theory, and that our theorization of trauma must constantly evolve towards a model which better meets the needs of the current globalized world, in which structural violence and traumatic events often occur in close conjunction to one another. Along these lines, this article's analysis of Ghanaian writer Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments and Somali author Nuruddi…
Totalitarian politics and individual responsibility
Hannah Arendt’s writings concerning individual responsibility create an important – and under-examined – context for reading J. M. Coetzee’s oeuvre, particularly his novel Waiting for the Barbarians. For Arendt, when a society fails to offer ethical codes of conduct to follow, people should determine those codes by themselves, since morality concerns people in their individuality during totalitarian times. Arendt’s ideas bear important similariti…
Challenging moral corruption in the postcolony
This article focuses on Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968), which portrays a nameless protagonist who clings to his own ethics as he resists corruption in Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana in the 1960s, an instance of what Achille Mbembe has called the postcolony. This situation bears comparison with Hannah Arendt’s political philosophy, which emphasises individual responsibility in political situations in which common democratic nor…
Critical Representation of Neoliberal Capitalism and Uneven Development in Tsitsi Dangarembga's This Mournable Body
This article focuses on Tsitsi Dangarembga’s novel This Mournable Body (2018), which\ncompletes her trilogy on Tambudzai Sigauke’s life story in relation to the neoliberal\npolitical order in contemporary Zimbabwe. The country has been recently referred to as\ncultivating ultra-neoliberal policies, and, in such a framework, state repression becomes\nreplaced by state negligence towards citizens’ economic survival. In This Mournable Body,\nneolibe…
Contested political alliances in fortress Europe
Helon Habila's Travellers was written as a response to the refugee crisis in 2015, and it narrates loosely connected stories of African asylum seekers precariously travelling in Southern and Western European countries seeking shelter.This article discusses the novel's representation of Europeans and migrants acting together by drawing from Jacques Rancire's theorization of dissensus as a tool to challenge existing political hierarchies by creatin…
Picaros and shapeshifters
I read GauZ's Standing Heavy in connection with the postcolonial picaresque style, as GauZ's Ivorian immigrant characters are robust survivors who see through the French system and criticize it through their anti-idealist viewpoints.This cynical view, often disclosed through roguish language, provides the author the possibility of expressing aggression toward the unfair system and highlighting the characters' need to find their agency within its …
The Politics of Shame in Musa Okwonga’s One of Them
Art (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (5 works) · Literature (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works)