Awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1920, Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) was a towering figure of Norwegian letters. He was also a Nazi sympathizer and supporter of the German occupation of Norway during World War II. Monika Zagar reveals the ways in which messages of racism and sexism appear in works from throughout the long career of this prolific writer.Monika Zagar is associate professor of Scandinavian studies at the University of Minnesota.
Awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1920, Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) was a towering figure of Norwegian letters. He was also a Nazi sympathizer and supporter of the German occupation of Norway during World War II. Monika Zagar reveals the ways in which messages of racism and sexism appear in works from throughout the long career of this prolific writer.Monika Zagar is associate professor of Scandinavian studies at the University of Minnesota.
Monika agar is professor emerita in the department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch at the University of Minnesota. She is author of Knut Hamsun: The Dark Side of Literary Brilliance (University of Washington Press, 2009), Ideological Clowns: Dag Solstad, Between Modernism and Politics (Wiener Studien zur Skandinavistik, 2002), and Imagining the Red-Skinned Other Hamsun's Article Fra en Indianerleir (Edda, 2001). She is coeditor, with Patrizia McBride and Richard McCormick, of Legacies of Modernism: Art and Politics in Northern Europe, 1890-1950 (Palgrave, 2007).
Inhaltsangabe
1. Discourses of Race and Primitivism in Scandinavia 2. Hamsun's Women as Scapegoats for Modernity's Sins 3. Imagining the Indians 4. Imagining Black and White 5. A Taste of the Orient 6. Imagining the Sly Magic "Lapps" 7. Imagining Degeneration and Revolution: The Interwar Period and Occupation 8. The Rhetoric of Defense in Hamsun's Paa gjengrodde stier Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
1. Discourses of Race and Primitivism in Scandinavia 2. Hamsun's Women as Scapegoats for Modernity's Sins 3. Imagining the Indians 4. Imagining Black and White 5. A Taste of the Orient 6. Imagining the Sly Magic "Lapps" 7. Imagining Degeneration and Revolution: The Interwar Period and Occupation 8. The Rhetoric of Defense in Hamsun's Paa gjengrodde stier Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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