Visual Stereotypes of Tatars in the Finnish Press from the 1880s to the 1910s
Visual stereotypes constitute a set of tropes through which the Other is described and depicted to an audience, who perhaps never will encounter the individuals that those tropes purport to represent. Upon the arrival of Muslim Tatar traders in Finland in the late nineteenth century, newspapers and...
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| description | Visual stereotypes constitute a set of tropes through which the Other is described and depicted to an audience, who perhaps never will encounter the individuals that those tropes purport to represent. Upon the arrival of Muslim Tatar traders in Finland in the late nineteenth century, newspapers and satirical journals utilized visual stereotypes to identify the new arrivals and draw demarcation lines
between them and what was considered “Finnish”. The Tatars arrived during a time of tension in the relationship between the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland and the Russian Empire, with the Finnish intelligentsia divided along political and language lines. Stereotypical images of Tatar
pedlars were used as insults against political opponents within Finland and as covert criticism of the policies of the Russian Empire. Stereotypes about ethnic and religious minorities like the Tatars fulfilled a political need for substitute enemy images; after Finland became independent in 1917, these visual stereotypes almost disappeared. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-235b9fd02f0e4fcc9e372129924909312022-12-22T00:01:27ZengFinnish Oriental SocietyStudia Orientalia Electronica2323-52092020-05-01822539https://doi.org/10.23993/store.82942Visual Stereotypes of Tatars in the Finnish Press from the 1880s to the 1910sAinur Elmgren0University of HelsinkiVisual stereotypes constitute a set of tropes through which the Other is described and depicted to an audience, who perhaps never will encounter the individuals that those tropes purport to represent. Upon the arrival of Muslim Tatar traders in Finland in the late nineteenth century, newspapers and satirical journals utilized visual stereotypes to identify the new arrivals and draw demarcation lines between them and what was considered “Finnish”. The Tatars arrived during a time of tension in the relationship between the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland and the Russian Empire, with the Finnish intelligentsia divided along political and language lines. Stereotypical images of Tatar pedlars were used as insults against political opponents within Finland and as covert criticism of the policies of the Russian Empire. Stereotypes about ethnic and religious minorities like the Tatars fulfilled a political need for substitute enemy images; after Finland became independent in 1917, these visual stereotypes almost disappeared.https://journal.fi/store/article/view/82942stereotypesracesensory stereotypestatarsmigrationstereotypingethnic minoritiesreligious minoritiesvolga turksfinlandracialisationracismotheringcartoonscaricaturesmuslimsrussian empiresatirical magazinesnationalismracial stereotypes |
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| title | Visual Stereotypes of Tatars in the Finnish Press from the 1880s to the 1910s |
| title_full | Visual Stereotypes of Tatars in the Finnish Press from the 1880s to the 1910s |
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| title_short | Visual Stereotypes of Tatars in the Finnish Press from the 1880s to the 1910s |
| title_sort | visual stereotypes of tatars in the finnish press from the 1880s to the 1910s |
| topic | stereotypes race sensory stereotypes tatars migration stereotyping ethnic minorities religious minorities volga turks finland racialisation racism othering cartoons caricatures muslims russian empire satirical magazines nationalism racial stereotypes |
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