Isak Dinesen and the Engendering of Narrative
Cloth $81.00
ISBN: 9780226011127
Published April 1990
Paper $32.00
ISBN: 9780226011134
Published April 1990
Foreword, by Catharine R. Stimpson
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One - Openings
1. "Caprice de femme enceinte": Reconceiving Isak Dinesen
2. Becoming "Isak Dinesen": The Fiction of the Author
3. Writing (in) Exile: Reverie, Recollection, and the Poetics of Displacement
Part Two - Spinning Tales
4. Gothic Cryptographies
5. "A world turned upside down"
6. Reading Contracts
7. Simian Semiotics
8. Circulating Sexes, Wandering Words
9. Ghost Writing
Part Three - The Art of Sacrifice
10. Transporting Topographies: Out of Africa and the Poetics of Nostalgia
Epilogue. Carnival Laughter: The Theater of the Body
Notes
Index
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