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Anmeldelser af: Ole Togeby: Mie Fem. Nielsen og Svend Skriver (red.): Metodekogebogen – 130 analysemetoder fra humaniora og samfundsvidenskab Simon Skovgaard Boeck: Bodil Ejrnæs: Gammeldansk Bibel. Studier i en dansk bibeloversættelse fra middelalderen Kjeld Kristensen: Georg Stubkjær Adamsen m.fl. (red.): Dialekter i rigt mål Anna Sandberg: Stephan Michael Schröder: Literatur als Bellographie. Der Krieg von 1864 in der dänischen Literatur Jens Kramshøj Flinker: Torsten Bøgh Thomsen: Skyggepunkter. Menneske, natur og materialitet i H.C. Andersens forfatterskab Karin Sanders: Johnny Kondrup: Bjergtaget. Illusion og forf.relse fra Søren Kierkegaard til Karen Blixen Kristian Himmelstrup: Henrik Yde: NEXØ - Martin Andersen Nexøs liv og værk Erik Skyum-Nielsen: Jan Inge Sørbø: Nynorsk litteraturhistorie

“The Juices of the Body”: Ecomasculine Fluidification in Two Stories by Isak Dinesen

Gender is a key factor in shaping perceptions of environmental relationships, and moving toward sustainability requires that we rethink dominant ideas about both femininity and masculinity. Danish bilingual author Karen Blixen (1885–1962) wrote cryptic and convoluted stories under the male pseudonym Isak Dinesen, and while there is an abundance of feminist scholarship on Dinesen, her critique of masculine identity and her relevance to the emergent field of ecomasculinity studies have so far gone unnoticed. In this essay, I draw on feminist scholarship and cultural histories of male embodiment, as I analyze fluid masculine corporeality in “The Monkey” (1934) and “Ehrengard” (1962). In both her early and late narratives, I argue, Dinesen pushes back against the 20th century “metallization” of male bodies with baroque narratives and characters whose trajectories begin to produce novel and fruitful understandings of masculinity and the male body in relation to other bodies and the more-than-human world. More specifically, what I label “fluidification” designates recurring moments in Dinesen’s writing when corporeal boundaries are breached and male characters find themselves re-manned and re-environed by their bodies’ all-too-human participation in “transcorporeal” flows. The male bodies that populate Dinesen’s fiction, I find, diverge strikingly from the seamlessly solid, statuesque, and self-enclosed men of steel fantasized by contemporary fascists, communists, futurists, militarists, and machine-age modernists. While the hegemonic ideal of hard, dry, anti-ecological masculinity has persisted and even flourished to the present day, I approach Dinesen’s fictions as counterhegemonic sites where alternative earth-friendlier meanings of masculinity can become visible.

A subversão pela tradição de Isak Dinesen: animismo, bruxas e storytelling em “The Deluge at Norderney”

O presente artigo tem como objetivo investigar de que modo a autora Isak Dinesen (pseudônimo e personagem viva de Karen Blixen) utiliza certos recursos para invocar a memória das tradições pagãs europeias. Entre eles, há o animismo, em que a natureza, especialmente o mar, tem agência e intenção, interferindo com e manipulando o enredo - remetendo ao sistema ontológico animista, que caracteriza o modo de pensar do paganismo. Há também o emprego do storytelling, modo como os conhecimentos são transmitidos entre as gerações por essas populações, e a presença constante da figura da bruxa. Ao empregar esses elementos em sua escrita, Dinesen cria um tipo peculiar de modernismo que subverte as leis da composição literária clássica através da retomada de outro tipo de tradição, que há séculos questiona e resiste ao status quo.

»The Whole World«

The bilingual oeuvre of Karen Blixen/Isak Dinesen contains many traces of inescapable connections and distant reverberations from the entire world: relations to far-off places, figures of mobility and foreignness; a ‘global mix’ of literary forms; innumerable references to intertextual works from world literature; and provocative perceptions of the world. Drawing upon globalisation theories, this study is the first to focus on this hitherto neglected aspect of Blixen’s/Dinesen´s relationship to the world, which runs right through the anecdotes, figures and tropes in her work. In their engagement with the world as a whole, her narratives reflect models and dynamics of globality, while aesthetically representing connectivity and an awareness of foreignness.

Litteraturen eller eksistensen?

Anmeldelse af: Johnny Kondrup: Bjergtaget. Illusion og forførelse fra Søren Kierkegaard til Karen Blixen. Forlaget Wunderbuch 2009, 303 sider.

Mulleres na escuridade: estudo das personaxes femininas n’O corazón do negror, de Joseph Conrad

Publicado en 1902, O corazón do negror foi considerado un testemuño de excepción –ao que virían sumarse Pasaxe á India, de E. M. Forster ou Memorias de África, de Karen Blixen- sobre as dinámicas colonialistas no apoxeo da súa implantación nos territorios dominados. Conrad escribe desde a experiencia persoal para retratar dun xeito cru as sombras que se cinguen sobre os mecanismos de explotación da África ignota, a negrura moral de quen os dirixen, só equiparable á da propia selva. O seu é un relato de ousadía, de ambición e vontade de transcendencia, valores que sociedades como as europeas percibían daquela como inherentes ao xénero masculino. Mariñeiros, comerciantes, peregrinos da metrópole pululan polas terras africanas. Pero que hai das mulleres? Que rol desempeñan na novela e, por extensión, na colonización aos ollos de Conrad? O obxectivo deste artigo é ofrecer unha aproximación á cuestión mediante unha lectura crítica do texto.

Frejdigt kan en Kvinde opslå sin Ridderhjelm...

Anmeldelse af: Tom Buk-Swienty: Løvinden. Karen Blixen i Afrika, Gyldendal, 2018.

Den leende og legende Blixen

Anmeldelse af: Charlotte Engberg: Latter og lettere beruset. Om at læse Karen Blixen, Syddansk Univsersitetsforlag, 2019.