Nordic homonationalism in post-cinematic times

What is it about?

This short subject analyses the racialized dynamics of the Norwegian TV series SKAM vis-à-vis its representation of queerness. It argues that the Muslim character Sana stands in for the ‘good ethnic’ who simultaneously represents the ‘backwardness’ of her religion and the imaginary of Norwegian multiculturalism that can ‘rehabilitate’ her into its image.

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