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Contents introduction xi Part I Romantic Journeys to the Orient 3 one Discovering His Inner Turk: Hans Christian Andersen’s Commodification of the Exotic 6 two The Hyphenated Woman: Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann’s Juggling Categories of Gender, Nation, and Ethnicity 31 three The Ironic Traveler: Danger and Identity in Knut Hamsun’s Oriental Travelogues 58 Part II Modern Primitive Travel 81 four Savage Science: Johannes V. Jensen in the Malay Jungle 87 five Humor, Gender, and Nationality: Isak Dinesen’s Encounter with Africa 106 six The Traveler and the Tourist: Axel Jensen’s Desperate Frolic in the Sahara 143 Part III Late and Postmodern Travel 173 seven From the Personal to the Universal—and Back: Carsten Jensen around the World 176 eight Futile Journeys: Parody, Postmodernism, and Postnationalism in Erlend Loe’s Traveling 204 conclusion 233 notes 243 bibliography 287 index 295 [44.204.34.64] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 23:40 GMT) This page intentionally left blank Georg Wilhelm Baurenfeind, Depiction of Dancers and Their Musicians on the Way to Cairo, from Reisebeschreibung nach Arabien und andern umliegenden Ländern by Carsten Niebuhr (1774) ...