Main entry:

Oxfeldt, Elisabeth.

Title & Author:

Journeys from Scandinavia : travelogues of Africa, Asia, and South America, 1840-2000 / Elisabeth Oxfeldt.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2010.

Description:

xxvii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Part I. Romantic journeys to the Orient: Discovering his inner Turk: Hans Christian Andersen's commodification of the exotic; the hyphenated woman: Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann's juggling categories of gender, nation, and ethnicity; the ironic traveler: danger and identity in Knut Hamsun's Oriental travelogues -- Part II. Modern primitive travel: savage science: Johannes V. Jensen in the Malay jungle; humor, gender, and nationality: Isak Dinesen's encounter with Africa; the traveler and the tourist: Axel Jensen's desperate frolic in the Sahara -- Part III. Late and postmodern travel: From the personal to the universal-and back: Carsten Jensen around the world; futile journeys: parody, postmodernism, and postnationalism in Erlend Loe's traveling.

Summary:

"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.

ISBN:

9780816656349 (hc ; alk. paper)
0816656347 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780816656356 (pb ; alk. paper)
0816656355 (pb ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Travelers' writings, Scandinavian History and criticism.
Travel in literature.
Travelers in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Other (Philosophy) in literature.
Exoticism in literature.
Other minds (Theory of knowledge) in literature.
Voyage dans la littérature.
Voyageurs dans la littérature.
Postcolonialisme dans la littérature.
Altérité dans la littérature.
Literature
Travelers' writings, Scandinavian
Reiseliteratur nordische Geschichte Neuzeit.
Reiseliteratur.
Skandinavische Sprachen.
Motiv.
Exotismus.
Danska reseskildringar historia.
Norska reseskildringar historia.
Resor i litteraturen.
Resenärer i litteraturen.
Africa In literature.
Asia In literature.
South America In literature.
Afrique Dans la littérature.
Asie Dans la littérature.
Amérique du Sud Dans la littérature.
Africa
Asia
South America
Afrika.
Asien.
Südamerika.
Afrika i litteraturen.
Asien i litteraturen.
Sydamerika i litteraturen.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 269450
Call No.: BIB 201702
Status: Available