Abstract
This paper is dealing briefly with a phenomenon, which the author calls quasi-Sámi literature, i.e. a literary fiction written by non-Sámi authors about Sámi people from a supposed Sámi perspective and based in a sympathy to the Sámi. The focus is given to the basic motivics and intentions related to the motives.
Since the intentions can be imagined only by means of the context - both, S ámi and non-Sámi -, also contextual features are taken into consideration. Three quasi-Sámi texts have been chosen as examples: Leila by Jens Andreas Friis, the partly unpublished novel trilogy about the decline of Sámi culture in Borgefjell by Václav Marek and When jays fly to Bárbmo by Margaret Balderson.
The other texts mentioned in the paper serve as a contrast on different levels.