Isak Dinesen and the Engendering of Narrative

by Susan Hardy Aiken

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226011135
• ISBN13: 9780226011134
• Release Date: April 1990
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"