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Iceland and Images of the North

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Edited by Sumarlidi Isleifsson
2011
Published by: Presses de l'Université du Québec
Series: Droit au Pôle
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With a radically changing world, cultural identity and images have emerged as one of the most challenging issues in the social and cultural sciences. These changes provide an occasion for a thorough reexamination of cultural, historical, political, and economic aspects of society. The INOR (Iceland and Images of the North) group is an interdisciplinary group of Icelandic and non-Icelandic scholars whose recent research on contemporary and historical images of Iceland and the North seeks to analyze the forms these images assume, as well as their function and dynamics. The 21 articles in this book allow readers to seize the variety and complexity of the issues related to images of Iceland.

Table of Contents

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Cover

pp. 1-4

Title Page, Copyright

pp. 5-8

Table of Contents

pp. vii-viii

Table of illustrations

pp. ix-xii

Foreword

pp. 1-2

Introduction: Imaginations of National Identity and the North

pp. 3-22

Historical Images

The Emergence of Norðrlönd in Old Norse Medieval Texts, ca. 1100–1400

pp. 25-40

Islands on the Edge: Medieval and Early Modern National Images of Iceland and Greenland

pp. 41-66

The Greco-Roman Heritage and Image Construction in Iceland 1830–1918

pp. 67-114

Old Norse Poetry and New Beginnings in Late 18th- and Early 19th-Century Literature

pp. 115-156

Old Norse–Icelandic Literature and German Culture

pp. 157-186

Racist Caricatures in Iceland in the Early 20th Century

pp. 187-204

Monuments to Settlers of the North: A Means to Strengthen National Identity

pp. 205-228

Images of the North, Sublime Nature, and a Pioneering Icelandic Nation

pp. 229-254

Between Nostalgia and Modernity: Competing Discourses in Travel Writing about the Nordic North

pp. 255-282

Contemporary Images

The Image of Iceland in the Local and Global Nexus of Whaling Politics

pp. 285-304

Banking on Borealism: Eating, Smelling, and Performing the North

pp. 305-328

Drinking in Iceland and Ideas of the North

pp. 329-350

Nature, Nostalgia, and Narrative: Material Identity in Icelandic Design

pp. 351-372

The Use of English in Iceland: Convenience or a Cultural Threat? A Lingua Franca or Lingua Detrimental?

pp. 373-404

The Gender-Equal North: Icelandic Images of Femininity and Masculinity

pp. 405-434

Staging the Nation: Performing Icelandic Nationality during the 1986 Reykjavík Summit

pp. 435-460

The New Viking Wave: Cultural Heritage and Capitalism

pp. 461-480

Foreign Fictions of Iceland

pp. 481-512

The “North” and the “Idea of Iceland”: Contemporary Cross-Cultural Construction of Representations of Iceland

pp. 513-530

Reflecting Images: The Front Page of Icelandic Tourism Brochures

pp. 531-552

Nation-Branding: A Critical Evaluation: Assessing the Image Building of Iceland

pp. 553-582

Notes on contributors

pp. 583-588

Places, persons, people, institutions, and events mentioned in the articles

pp. 589-612
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