Journeys from Scandinavia
travelogues of Africa, Asia, and South America, 1840-2000
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Author
Publication
2010 - University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Language
English
Word Count
82,000 words, Guess
Page Count
328 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100816656347
- ISBN-139780816656349
- ISBN-139780816656356
- ISBN-100816656355
- WikidataQ98586908
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- Library of Congress Control Number2010017035
- OCLC Control Number475453686
- Better World Books9780816656349
- Better World Books9780816656356
- Open LibraryOL24494172M
Classifications
- DDC839.7/355
- LCCPT7073.T73 O94 2010
- LCCPT7073.T73O94 2010
Description
"Focusing on Danish and Norwegian travelogues, Elisabeth Oxfeldt traces the evolution of Scandinavian travel writing over two centuries using pivotal texts from each era, including works by Hans Christian Andersen, Knut Hamsun, and Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen). Oxfeldt situates each one in its historical and geopolitical context, and her close readings delineate how each travelogue reflects Scandinavia's ongoing confrontation between Self and the non-European cultural Other. A long-overdue examination of travel literature produced by some of Denmark and Norway's greatest writers, Journeys from Scandinavia unpacks the unstable constructions of Scandinavian cultural and national identity and, in doing so, complicates the common assumption of a homogeneous, hegemonic Scandinavia."--P. [4] of cover.
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- Journeys from Scandinavia: travelogues of Africa, Asia, and South America, 1840-2000
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