ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 Discourses of Race and Primitivism in Scandinavia 19
6. 2 Hamsun’s Women as Scapegoats for Modernity’s Sins 51
7. 3 Imagining the Indians 83
8. 4 Imagining Black and White 111
9. 5 A Taste of the Orient 136
10. 6 Imagining the Sly Magic “Lapps” 160
11. 7 Imagining Degeneration and Revolution: The Interwar Period and the Occupation 181
12. 8 The Rhetoric of Defense in Hamsun’s Paa gjengrodde stier 211
13. Epilogue 232
14. Notes 237
15. Bibliography 313
16. Index 331