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Journeys from ScandinaviaJourneys from Scandinavia

Journeys from Scandinavia

Elisabeth Oxfeldt

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"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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OL Work ID
OL15537598W

Subjects

Travelers in literaturePostcolonialism in literatureHistory and criticismTravelers' writings, ScandinavianOther (Philosophy) in literatureExoticism in literatureIn literatureTravel in literatureTravelers' writingsAfrica, in literatureSouth america, in literature

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