Blar i forfatter Artikler, rapporter og annet (språk og kultur) "Niemi, Minna Johanna"
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Challenging moral corruption in the postcolony: Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born and Hannah Arendt’s notion of individual responsibility
Niemi, Minna Johanna (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-08-13)This article focuses on Ayi Kwei Armah’s <i>The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born</i> (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 ... -
Contested political alliances in fortress Europe: migrants and Europeans in Helon Habila’s Travellers
Niemi, Minna Johanna (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-11-25)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 Rancière’s theorization of dissensus as a ... -
Critical representation of neoliberal capitalism and uneven development in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s This Mournable Body
Niemi, Minna Johanna (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-08-11)This article focuses on Tsitsi Dangarembga’s novel This Mournable Body (2018), which completes her trilogy on Tambudzai Sigauke’s life story in relation to the neoliberal political order in contemporary Zimbabwe. The country has been recently referred to as cultivating ultra-neoliberal policies, and, in such a framework, state repression becomes replaced by state negligence towards citizens’ ... -
Totalitarian politics and individual responsibility: Revising Hannah Arendt’s inner dialogue through the notion of confession in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians
Niemi, Minna Johanna (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-05-10)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 ...