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Isak Dinesen and the Engendering of Narrative (Paperback, New)
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Isak Dinesen and the Engendering of Narrative (Paperback, New)
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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
persistently asserted the inseparability of gender and the
engendering of narrative. She argues that Dinesen's texts
anticipate in remarkable ways some of the most radical insights of
contemporary literary theories, particularly those of French
feminist criticism. Aiken also offers a major rereading of Out of
Africa that both addresses its distinctiveness as a colonialist
text and places it within Dinesen's larger oeuvre. In Aiken's
account, Dinesen's work emerges as a compelling inquiry into sexual
difference and the ways it informs culture, subjectivity, and the
language that is their medium. This important book will at last
give Isak Dinesen's work the prominence it deserves in literary
studies.
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