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| Title: | Nordic Orientalism
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| Author: | Elisabeth Oxfeldt |
| ISBN: | 8763501341 : 9788763501347 |
| Illustrations: | illus |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pages: | 256 |
| Weight: | .656 Kg. |
| Published: | Museum Tusculanum Press - September 2005 |
| List Price: | 30 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Orientalism: LITERATURE: HISTORY & CRITICISM: Denmark: Norway |
This book explores the appropriation of Oriental imagery within Danish and Norwegian 19th century nation-building. The project queries Edward Said's binary notion of Orientalism and posits a more complex model describing how European counties 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 modernisation, urbanisation and democratisation the study furthermore shows how the Romanticists' naive treatment of the Orient was challenged by increased contact with the 'real' Orient.
