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    1. Karen Blixen 1885-1962 2011

      Rossner, S

      Obesity Reviews, Vol. 12, Issue 1, p. 66.

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    2. “The Juices of the Body”: Ecomasculine Fluidification in Two Stories by Isak Dinesen 2022

      Mortensen, Peter

      Men And Masculinities, Vol. 25, Issue 1, pp. 106 - 125.

      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 ... Read more

      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. Read less

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    3. Africanist Paradoxes of Storytelling in Karen Blixen’s Out of Africa 2017

      KAI MIKKONEN

      Narrative Paths, p. 266.

      Karen blixen’s (also known as Isak Dinesen, 1885–1962)Out of Africa(1937), set in the so-called British East Africa where the writer lived between 1914 and 1931, was an international bestseller.Out... Read more

      Karen blixen’s (also known as Isak Dinesen, 1885–1962)Out of Africa(1937), set in the so-called British East Africa where the writer lived between 1914 and 1931, was an international bestseller.Out of Africahas been usually classified as a memoir, but the classification has not been unanimously accepted among critics. In part, this is due to the book’s fragmented, episodic form that distinguishes it from traditional memoirs or autobiographies and, in part, to the liberties that Blixen took in her book with some facts of her life in East Africa. Furthermore, Blixen’s narrative perspective, which is self-consciously retrospective Read less

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    1. Isak Dinesen/Karen Blixen : the work and the life

      by Aage Henriksen ; translated by William Mishler ; introduction by Paul Houe.

      Hill PT8175 .B545 Z699 1988 | Book

    2. The power of Aries : myth and reality in Karen Blixen's life

      Anders Westenholz ; translated from the Danish by Lise Kure-Jensen.

      Hill PT8175 .B545 Z9213 1987 | Book

    3. Silence will speak : a study of the life of Denys Finch Hatton and his relationship with Karen...

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      Multiple Locations | Book

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