Niemi, Minna Johanna

Minna Johanna Niemi

Stillingsbeskrivelse

Minna Johanna Niemi er førsteamanuensis i engelsk litteratur ved Institutt for språk og kultur. Hun tok sin doktorgrad i engelsk ved The University at Buffalo i 2011 (Representations of History in African Diasporic Literatures and the Politics of Postmodernism). Hun har fullført et postdoktorprosjekt på postkoloniale afrikansk litteratur ved University of Turku, Finland, sponset av Finlands Akademi. Hennes forsknings- og undervisningsinteresser omfatter postkoloniale litterære studier, engelskspråklig afrikansk litteratur og traumetematikk og etikk. Hennes artikler har fokusert på afro amerikansk litteratur og postkolonialisme. Hun har skrivet en bok om temaet medfølelse og ansvar i moderne afrikansk litteratur: Complicity and Responsibility in Contemporary African Writing: The Postcolony Revisited (Routledge, 2021).

https://www.routledge.com/Complicity-and-Responsibility-in-Contemporary-African-Writing-The-Postcolony/Niemi/p/book/9780367139698

Arbeider i Cristin

Minna Johanna Niemi :

Picaros and shapeshifters: the postcolonial picaresque style in GauZ’s Standing Heavy

Journal of the African Literature Association (JALA) 2024 ARKIV / DOI

Minna Johanna Niemi :

Contested political alliances in fortress Europe: migrants and Europeans in Helon Habila’s Travellers

Continuum. Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 2023 ARKIV / DOI

Minna Johanna Niemi :

Critical representation of neoliberal capitalism and uneven development in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s This Mournable Body

Journal of Southern African Studies 2021 ARKIV / DOI

Minna Johanna Niemi :

Challenging Developmentalist Narratives: Helon Habila's Oil on Water as a Representation of the Extractivist Exploitation in the Niger Delta Region

Lexington Books 2018

Minna Johanna Niemi :

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

Postcolonial Studies 2017 ARKIV / DOI

Minna Johanna Niemi :

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

South African Journal of Philosophy 2017 ARKIV / DOI

Minna Johanna Niemi :

"Revising postcolonial trauma: Multidirectional identifications in Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments and Nuruddin Farah’s Maps"

Journal of Postcolonial Writing 2015 DOI

Minna Johanna Niemi, Justin Parks :

Home, Homelessness and the Wayward Subject in the Novels of James Joyce and Claude McKay

Peter Lang Publishing Group 2010

Minna Johanna Niemi :

Complicity and Responsibility in Contemporary African Writing: The Postcolony Revisited

Routledge 2021

Minna Johanna Niemi :

”Re-envisioning the Haunting Past: Kara Walker’s Art and the Re-appropriation of the Visual Codes of the Antebellum South” in World Cinema and the Visual Arts (David Gallagher, ed.)

Anthem Press 2012

Astrid Rasch, Minna Johanna Niemi, Jocelyn Alexander :

Reading Repression and Resistance in Zimbabwean Literature

Journal of Southern African Studies 27. oktober 2021 DATA / DOI

Minna Johanna Niemi :

Making The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo: An interview with Yaba Badoe

Ariel: A Review of International English Literature 2018 DOI

Minna Johanna Niemi, Nuruddin Farah :

“Witnessing Contemporary Somalia from Abroad: An Interview with Nuruddin Farah”

Callaloo 2012 DOI

Forskningsinteresser

Afrikansk litteratur, Afroamerikansk kulturvitenskap, etikk, postkolonialisme

Forskningsprosjekter

Medlem av forskningsgruppe: "Literatures of Change: Culture and Politics in Southern Africa" (2019-2023)

https://www.ntnu.edu/isl/literatures-of-change

Publikasjoner:

Complicity and Responsibility in Contemporary African Writing: The Postcolony Revisited. Routledge, 2021.

https://www.routledge.com/Complicity-and-Responsibility-in-Contemporary-African-Writing-The-Postcolony/Niemi/p/book/9780367139698

“Picaros and shapeshifters: the postcolonial picaresque style in GauZ’s Standing Heavy.” Journal of the African Literature Association 18.1. (2024): 50–69.

“Contested political alliances in fortress Europe: migrants and Europeans in Helon Habila’s Travellers.” Continuum (2023): 1–14.

"Critical representation of neoliberal capitalism and uneven development in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s This Mournable Body." Journal of Southern African Studies 47.5 (2021): 869-888.

“Challenging Developmentalist Narratives: Helon Habila’s Oil on Water as a Representation of the Extractivist Exploitation in the Niger Delta Region.” In Robert Ficociello and Robert Bell, eds., Eco Culture: Disaster, Narrative, Discourse. Lexington Books, 2018.

“Making The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo: An Interview with Yaba Badoe.” ARIEL 49.2-3 (2018): 257-269.

"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." Postcolonial Studies 20.2 (2017).

"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." South African Journal of Philosophy 36.2 (2017): 223-238.

“Revising Postcolonial Trauma: Multidirectional Identifications in Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments and Nuruddin Farah’s Maps.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing 51.3 (2015): 283-295.

“Witnessing Contemporary Somalia from Abroad: An Interview with Nuruddin Farah.” Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters 35.2 (Spring 2012): 330-340.

”Re-envisioning the Haunting Past: Kara Walker’s Art and the Re-appropriation of the Visual Codes of the Antebellum South.” World Cinema and the Visual Arts. Ed. David Gallagher. London: Anthem Press, 2012. 153-162.

“‘A dynamic of blaming and counterblaming’: J. M. Coetzee’s Analysis of Self-deception in South African Resistance Literature.” Pivot: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies and Thought 1.1 (2011): 124-142.

“Home, Homelessness and the Wayward Subject in the Novels of James Joyce and Claude McKay.” (Co-authored with Justin Parks.) Phenomenology, Modernism, and Beyond. Ed. Carole Bourne-Taylor and Ariane Mildenberg. Oxford, UK: Peter Lang, 2010. 249-72.

“Challenging Psychoanalysis: A Black Woman’s Experience of ‘Race,’ Class and Gender in Alice Walker’s Meridian.” Close Encounters of An Other Kind: New Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity & American Studies. Ed. Roy Goldblatt, Jopi Nyman and John A Stotesbury. Joensuu: University of Joensuu Studies in Literature and Culture, 2005. 85-94.

“Alice Walkerin Possessing the Secret of Joy –romaani transnationaalisen feminismin edustajana.” (“The Representation of Transnational Feminism in Alice Walker’s Possessing the Secret of Joy.”) Vieraaseen kotiin. Ed. Pirjo Ahokas and Lotta Kähkönen. Turku: U of Turku P, 2003. 61-81.