The Creative Dialectic in Karen Blixen's Essays (inbunden)
Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
300
Utgivningsdatum
2014-03-06
Förlag
Museum Tusculanum Press
Dimensioner
247 x 165 x 25 mm
Vikt
680 g
ISBN
9788763540612

The Creative Dialectic in Karen Blixen's Essays

On Gender, Nazi Germany, and Colonial Desire

Inbunden,  Engelska, 2014-03-06
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Best-known for "Out of Africa" and "Babette's Feast", Karen Blixen -- often writing under the name Isak Dinesen -- was an iconic figure in Scandinavia and the Anglo-American world, celebrated as a literary star and a pundit in newspapers, radio, and lecture halls. Many of her topical pieces would later be published as essays, and in this book Marianne Stecher offers the first critical examination of them, exploring Blixen's sagacious reflections on some of the twentieth century's greatest challenges. Stecher uncovers a "creative dialectic" in Blixen's work, an interplay of complementary opposites that Blixen saw as fundamental to human life and artistic creativity. Whether exploring questions of gender and the status of the feminist movement in the middle of the twentieth century, the reign of National Socialism in Hitler's Germany, or colonial race relations under British rule in East Africa, Blixen drew on a dialectical method to offer insightful, witty, and surprisingly progressive observations. Including the first English translation of Blixen's essay "Blacks and Whites in Africa", this book is an essential companion to the works of this original thinker and writer.
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"A very illuminating book which traces the pattern of the 'creative dialectic' into Karen Blixen's essays on three significant currents of the twentieth century: feminism, Nazism, and colonialism. This study elucidates Blixen's originality in dealing with these precarious issues."--Lasse Horne Kjaeldgaard, Danish Society of Language and Literature.

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Marianne Stecher is associate professor of Danish and Scandinavian literature at the University of Washington. She is the author of History Revisited: Fact and Fiction in Thorkild Hansen's Documentary Works.