Niemi, Minna Johanna

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Professor Giela ja kultuvrra instituhtta minna.j.niemi@uit.no +4777644176 Tromsø You can find me here

Minna Johanna Niemi

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Publications

Minna Johanna Niemi :

The Politics of Shame in Musa Okwonga’s One of Them: An Eton College Memoir

Life Writing 2025 DOI

Minna Johanna Niemi :

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

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

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 DOI / ARKIV

Minna Johanna Niemi :

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

Journal of Southern African Studies 2021 DOI / ARKIV

Minna Johanna Niemi :

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

2018

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 DOI / ARKIV

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 DOI / ARKIV

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

2010

Astrid Rasch, Minna Johanna Niemi, Amanda Hammar :

The Politics of the Past in Zimbabwe

Brill Academic Publishers 2025

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, Amanda Hammar, Jocelyn Alexander :

Book launch: The Politics of the Past in Zimbabwe

27. Jun 2025

Astrid Rasch, Minna Johanna Niemi, Jocelyn Alexander :

Reading Repression and Resistance in Zimbabwean Literature

Journal of Southern African Studies 27. Oct 2021 DOI

Minna Johanna Niemi :

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

2018 DOI

Minna Johanna Niemi, Nuruddin Farah :

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