The Colonial Pygmalion: Unsettling Dinesen in Out of Africa
This paper explores the atavistic and feudal historical fantasies that structure Isak Dinesen’s 1937 memoir, Out of Africa. It analyses the imagery and symbolic logic of the memoir in conjunction with Dinesen’s letters from Africa in order to examine how Dinesen derives an idiom to speak of Africa t...
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| Language: | English |
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Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
2015-12-01
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| Series: | Culture & History Digital Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://cultureandhistory.revistas.csic.es/index.php/cultureandhistory/article/view/77 |