Nordic Orientalism: Paris and the Cosmopolitan Imagination 1800-1900Museum Tusculanum Press, 2005 - 255 pagine Nordic Orientalism explores the appropriation of Oriental imagery within Danish and Norwegian nineteenth-century nation-building. The project queries Edward Said''s binary notion of Orientalism and posits a more complex model describing how European countries on the periphery ? Denmark and Norway ? imported Oriental imagery from France to position themselves, not against their colonial Other, but in relation to central European nations. Examining Nordic Orientalism across a century in the context of modernization, urbanization and democratization the study furthermore shows how the Romanticists? naive treatment of the Orient was challenged by increased contact with the "real" Orient. |
Sommario
Foreword and Acknowledgements | 7 |
The Incorporation of Aladdin into the Image of Danish | 21 |
Aladdins Background and Cultural Resonance | 27 |
An Allegorical Reading | 34 |
Shifting Perceptions of National | 40 |
Memory and History | 48 |
From a Reading to a Social Enactment | 55 |
Tivoli as an Oriental NationBuilding Force | 67 |
The Problematic Fourth Act in Peer Gynt | 133 |
Peer Gynts Encounter with the Real Oriental Other | 141 |
Peer Gynts Encounter with the Oriental Past | 151 |
The OffCenter Point of View | 159 |
Mental and Geographic | 165 |
The Problem of Being InBetween | 180 |
Hamsuns Importation of a French | 198 |
Hamsun in Wonderland | 216 |
China as a Source of Political Satire in Andersens Nattergalen | 82 |
Staged Cultural and Literary Encounters with | 99 |
Norwegian Reactions to Encounters with the Orient at | 109 |
Goldschmidts Literary Response to the Paris Exposition | 118 |
Andersens Response to Paris Ephemeral Spectacles | 126 |
Conclusion | 223 |
Bibliography | 229 |
Abstract | 245 |
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