Isak Dinesen and the Engendering of Narrative

Name: Isak Dinesen and the Engendering of Narrative
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ISBN: 9780226011127

ISBN-10: 0226011127

ISBN-13: 9780226011127

Edition: 1990

Authors: Susan Hardy Aiken, Catherine R. Stimpson

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Although Isak Dinesen has been widely acclaimed as a popular writer, her work has received little sustained critical attention. In this revisionist study, Susan Hardy Aiken takes up the complex relations of gender, sexuality, and representation in Dinesen's narratives. Drawing on feminist, psychoanalytic, and post-structuralist theories, Aiken shows how the form and meaning of Dinesen's texts are affected by her doubled situations as a Dane who wrote in English, a European who lived for many years in Africa, and a woman who wrote under a male pseudonym within a male-centered literary tradition. In a series of readings that range across Dinesen's career, Aiken demonstrates that Dinesen…

Book details

List price: $117.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/24/1990
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 350
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.92" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


Introduction



Openings



""Caprice de femme enceinte"": Reconceiving




Becoming ""Isak Dinesen"": The Fiction of the Author



Writing (in) Exile: Reverie, Recollection, and the Poetics of Displacement



Spinning Tales



Gothic Cryptographies



""A world turned upside down""



Reading Contracts



Simian Semiotics



Circulating Sexes




Ghost Writing



The Art of Sacrifice 10"