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JOURNEYS from SCANDINAVIA This page intentionally left blank JOURNEYS from SCANDINAVIA Travelogues of Africa, Asia, and South America, 1840–2000 ELISABETH OXFELDT University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis London The University of Minnesota Press gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance provided for the publication of this book from the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies at Oslo University. Chapter 2 was previously published in Danish as “Mellem orientalisme og feminisme: Bindestregs- kvinden Elisabeth Jerichau-B aumanns konstruktioner af nationaltyper i Brogede Reisebilleder,” Spring 22 (2004): 196–224. Chapter 3 was previously published in Danish as “Ingen-s teder i Ham- suns orientalske rejseskildringer,” in Even Arntzen and Henning H. Wærp, eds., Hamsun i Tromsø III. Rapport fra den 3. Internasjonale Hamsun-k onferanse, 2003 (Hamarøy: Hamsun-S elskapet, 2004), 129–48, and as “Orientalske rejseskildringer,” in Ståle Dingstad, ed., Den litterære Hamsun (Bergen: Fagbokforlaget, 2005), 105–23. Copyright 2010 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or other- wise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2 520 http://www.upress.umn.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Oxfeldt, Elisabeth. Journeys from Scandinavia : travelogues of Africa, Asia, and South America, 1840–2000 / Elisabeth Oxfeldt. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8166-5634-9 (hc : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8166-5635-6 (pb : alk. paper) 1. Travelers’ writings, Scandinavian—History and criticism. 2. Travel in literature. 3. Travelers in literature. 4. Postcolonialism in literature. 5. Other (Philosophy) in literature. 6. Exoticism in literature. 7. Africa—In literature. 8. Asia—In literature. 9. South America—In literature. I. Title. PT7073.T73O94 2010 839.7'355—dc22 2010017035 Printed in the United States of America on acid-f ree paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-o pportunity educator and employer. 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To Sara Elise This page intentionally left blank Contents introduction xi Part I Romantic Journeys to the Orient 3 one Discovering His Inner Turk: Hans Christian Andersen’s Commodification of the Exotic 6 two The Hyphenated Woman: Elisabeth Jerichau- Baumann’s Juggling Categories of Gender, Nation, and Ethnicity 31 three The Ironic Traveler: Danger and Identity in Knut Hamsun’s Oriental Travelogues 58 Part II Modern Primitive Travel 81 four Savage Science: Johannes V. Jensen in the Malay Jungle 87 five Humor, Gender, and Nationality: Isak Dinesen’s Encounter with Africa 106 six The Traveler and the Tourist: Axel Jensen’s Desperate Frolic in the Sahara 143 Part III Late and Postmodern Travel 173 seven From the Personal to the Universal—and Back: Carsten Jensen around the World 176 eight Futile Journeys: Parody, Postmodernism, and Postnationalism in Erlend Loe’s Traveling 204 conclusion 233 notes 243 bibliography 287 index 295 This page intentionally left blank
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