Nordic Orientalism(English, Hardcover, Oxfeldt Elisabeth)

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Nordic Orientalism(English, Hardcover, Oxfeldt Elisabeth) is written by Oxfeldt Elisabeth and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 8763501341 (ISBN 10) and 9788763501347 (ISBN 13).

This book explores the appropriation of Oriental imagery within Danish and Norwegian 19th century nation-building. The project queries Edward Said's binary notion of Orientalism and posits a more complex model describing how European counties on the periphery -- Denmark and Norway -- imported oriental imagery from France to position themselves, not against their colonial Other, but in relation to central European nations. Examining Nordic Orientalism across a century in the context of modernisation, urbanisation and democratisation the study furthermore shows how the Romanticists' naive treatment of the Orient was challenged by increased contact with the 'real' Orient.