RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Leaving Novaîa Zemlîa: Narrative Strategies of the Resettlement of the Nenets
JF Arctic Anthropology
JO Arctic Anthropol
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 32
OP 45
DO 10.3368/aa.54.1.32
VO 54
IS 1
A1 Lukin, Karina
YR 2017
UL http://aa.uwpress.org/content/54/1/32.abstract
AB The article examines narrative strategies in recollections related to the resettlement of the Nenets from Novaîa Zemlîa during the 1950s. The material consists of interviews and ethnographic fieldwork, newspaper articles, literature on the history of Novaîa Zemlîa, and an Internet discussion forum. The strategies are analyzed to be borne at the intersection of public and private discourses and varying relations to the so-called authorized discourse and the nuclear uncanny that those recollecting use and recreate in their reminiscences. The nuclear uncanny and the authorized discourse are used to separate the narrated event (the past) from the contemporary narrative event and to create connections between them.↵1. This paper is part of a series of publications focusing on Arctic Oral History. The series is one outcome of the Finnish Academy Project ORHELIA (Oral History of Empires by Elders in the Arctic), decision number 251111.