Journeys from Scandinavia: Travelogues of Africa, Asia, and South America, 18402000

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For all of the scholarship done on postcolonial literatures, little has been applied to Scandinavian writing. Yet, beginning with the onset of tourism beyond Scandinavia in the 1840s, a compelling body of prose works documents Scandinavian attitudes toward foreign countries and further shows how these Scandinavian travelers sought to portray themselves to uncharted cultures.

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Elisabeth Oxfeldt is associate professor at the University of Oslo and the author of Nordic Orientalism.