Böcker av Johanna Laakso

What is it like being a lesbian in a hetero-normative world? Set both in Russia and in Sweden, The Carnival Mirrors follows Aleksandra Kaminskaiya's attempt to make sense of herself and the psychological, political, and religious complications she must face, belonging to a controversial minority. Part love story, part biography, and all analogy, this horror story took a quarter of a century to write and digs deeply into the hard questions every lesbian must juggle.How does The Carnival Mirrors compare to your experiences? For more info about the book, go to www.jolabooks.com.

This book investigates the maintenance of multilingualism and minority languages in 12 different minority communities across Europe. The authors argue that legislation and institutional and educational support provide no guarantee for minority language maintenance, surmising that changes in attitudes and language ideologies are the key.