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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Conrad, JoAnn

Titel

Into the “Land of Snow and Ice”: Racial Fantasies in the Fairy-Tale Landscapes of the North

Ist Teil von

• Narrative culture, 2018-10, Vol.5 (2), p.255-290

Ort / Verlag

Detroit: Wayne State University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article examines fantasies of race and place in Scandinavian children's literature of the mid-1800s to early 1900s. Overtly fictionalized accounts of journeys to “fairy-tale landscapes” in the Scandinavian context take the form of “Journeys to the North”—in particular the “Journey to Lapland.” Although these narratives rest on a well-formed mythology of the North as a locus of fascination both imagined and encountered as well as on standard fairy-tale motifs and structures, they nonetheless constitute lessons on race, place, and identity for future modern subjects.