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Postcolonial Denmark: Nation Narration in a Crisis Ridden Europe book cover

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Postcolonial Denmark Nation Narration in a Crisis Ridden Europe

By Lars Jensen Copyright 2018
220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge
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This book adopts a global approach to analysing Danish nationhood in the current context of a Europe paralysed by crises. Focusing on the global strands which have produced understandings of national selfhood as a consequence of a series of historical and contemporary global encounters, it calls for the production of narratives which better capture how European nations, including Denmark, are... Read more

Introduction

1. Locating Denmark in Postcolonial Europe

2. Danish "Tropical" Colonial History – National Historiography Globalised

3. Political Narratives of the Emerging Postcolonial North Atlantic

4. The Delusionary Art of Devolution

5. Greenlandic Modernisation and the Evolution of Development Aid

6. Tourism, Restoration and the Restaging of Colonialism

7. Brawny Nation – Contemporary Danish War Films

8. Contemporary Denmark – a Retrospective

Timeline

References

Index

Biography

Lars Jensen is Associate Professor at Cultural Encounters, Department of Communication and Arts, Roskilde University. He is the author of Beyond Britain. Stuart Hall and the Postcolonializing of Anglophone Cultural Studies, and main editor of Postcolonial Europe: Comparative Reflections after the Empires. He has co-edited two volumes on the "Postcolonial Nordic", Crisis in the Nordic Nations and Beyond. At the Intersection of Environment, Finance and Multiculturalism, and Whiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region. Exceptionalism, Migrant Others and National Identities. He is also co-editor of A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures Continental Europe and its Empires.

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