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Introduction, Part I. Romantic Journeys to the Orient, 1. Discovering His Inner Turk: Hans Christian Andersen’s Commodification of the Exotic, 2. The Hyphenated Woman: Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann’s Juggling Categories of Gender, Nation, and Ethnicity, 3. The Ironic Traveler: Danger and Identity in Knut Hamsun’s Oriental Travelogues, Part II. Modern Primitive Travel, 4. Savage Science: Johannes V. Jensen in the Malay Jungle, 5. Humor, Gender, and Nationality: Issak Dinesen’s Encounter with Africa, 6. The Traveler and the Tourist: Axel Jensen’s Desperate Frolic in the Sahara, Part III. Late and Postmodern Travel, 7. From the Personal to the Universal–and Back: Carsten Jensen Around the World, 8. Futile Journeys: Parody, Postmodernism, and Postnationalism in Erlend Loe’s Traveling, Conclusion, Notes, Bibliography, Index

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: 30/08/2010
      ISBN13: 9780816656356, 978-0816656356
      ISBN10: 0816656355
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      Introduction, Part I. Romantic Journeys to the Orient, 1. Discovering His Inner Turk: Hans Christian Andersen’s Commodification of the Exotic, 2. The Hyphenated Woman: Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann’s Juggling Categories of Gender, Nation, and Ethnicity, 3. The Ironic Traveler: Danger and Identity in Knut Hamsun’s Oriental Travelogues, Part II. Modern Primitive Travel, 4. Savage Science: Johannes V. Jensen in the Malay Jungle, 5. Humor, Gender, and Nationality: Issak Dinesen’s Encounter with Africa, 6. The Traveler and the Tourist: Axel Jensen’s Desperate Frolic in the Sahara, Part III. Late and Postmodern Travel, 7. From the Personal to the Universal–and Back: Carsten Jensen Around the World, 8. Futile Journeys: Parody, Postmodernism, and Postnationalism in Erlend Loe’s Traveling, Conclusion, Notes, Bibliography, Index

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