Tuesday, October 29, 12 noon
Campus Westend, Cas. 1.812
The dominant narrative in Denmark has long been that Danish colonialism in Greenland was particularly mild and benign, emphasizing the Danes’ altruistic efforts to protect the Greenlandic ‘people of nature’ and help them transition gently into modernity. However, Danish author Iben Mondrup’s trilogy of novels – Tabita (2020), Vittu (2022), and Bjørn (2023) – challenges this narrative by depicting the traumatic experiences of two Greenlandic children who are ‘stolen’ by Danish families and subjected to neglect and trauma. This paper examines the trilogy’s potential impact on Danish cultural memory.
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