Knut Hamsun: The Dark Side of Literary Brilliance (New Directions in Scandinavian Studies)

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 3 1 Discourses of Race and Primitivism in Scandinavia 19 2 Hamsun’s Women as Scapegoats for Modernity’s Sins 51 3 Imagining the Indians 83 4 Imagining Black and White 111 5 A Taste of the Orient 136 6 Imagining the Sly Magic “Lapps” 160 7 Imagining Degeneration and Revolution 181 8 The Rhetoric of Defense in Hamsun’s Paa gjengrodde stier 211 Epilogue 232 Notes 237 Bibliography 313 Index 331 ...