Isak Dinesen and the Engendering of Narrative
350 pages
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6.00 x 9.00
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© 1990
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Table of Contents

Contents
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
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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