Kyrölä, K;
Huuki, T;
(2021)
Re-imagining a Queer Indigenous Past: Affective Archives and Minor Gestures in the Sámi Documentary Sparrooabbán.
JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies
, 60
(5)
pp. 75-98.
10.1353/cj.2021.0020.
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Abstract
This article examines the possibilities for re-imagining a queer indigenous past in Sparrooabbán (Me and My Little Sister, Suvi West, 2016)—the first feature-length documentary film that discusses non-heterosexuality in Sámi communities. We explore how the film queers the gákti, the traditional Sámi dress; how it uses elements other than verbal expression to mark queer traces in Sápmi; and how spirituality and faith create a (dis)connection to a Two-Spirit past and present. We argue that the documentary produces a series of minor transformative gestures to create a queer Sámi archive of affect when there is no conventional archival knowledge of gender and sexual diversity pre–settler colonialism.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Re-imagining a Queer Indigenous Past: Affective Archives and Minor Gestures in the Sámi Documentary Sparrooabbán |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1353/cj.2021.0020 |
| Publisher version: | https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/idx/j/jcms/1... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States licence (CC BY 3.0 US). |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10133902 |
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