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Brunner, Bernd, 1964-
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National characteristics, Scandinavian.
Literature and history -- Scandinavia.
Literature and society -- Scandinavia -- History.
Scandinavia -- Civilization.
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Brunner, Bernd, 1964-
National characteristics, Scandinavian.
Literature and history -- Scandinavia.
Literature and society -- Scandinavia -- History.
Scandinavia -- Civilization.
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Extreme North : a cultural history / Bernd Brunner ; translated by Jefferson Chase.
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Brunner, Bernd, 1964-
W.W. Norton & Company, 2022.
Call #:
948
B897e
Subjects
National characteristics, Scandinavian.
Literature and history -- Scandinavia.
Literature and society -- Scandinavia -- History.
Scandinavia -- Civilization.
ISBN:
9780393881004 (hc.)
Description:
246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Originally published in the German language as "Die Erfindung des Nordens." By Bernd Brunner (2019)
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-225) and index.
Summary:
"Scholars and laymen alike have long projected their fantasies onto the great expanse of the global North, whether it be as a frozen no-man's-land, an icy realm of marauding Vikings, or an unspoiled cradle of prehistoric human life. Bernd Brunner [a historian, lecturer, and the author of many acclaimed books] reconstructs the encounters of adventurers, colonists, and indigenous communities that led to the creation of a northern 'cabinet of wonders' and imbued Scandinavia, Iceland, and the Arctic with a perennial mystique. Like the mythological sagas that inspired everyone from Wagner to Tolkien, 'Extreme North' explores both the dramatic vistas of the Scandinavian fjords and the murky depths of a Western psyche obsessed with Nordic whiteness. In concise but thoroughly researched chapters, Brunner highlights the cultural and political fictions at play from the first 'discoveries' of northern landscapes and stories, to the eugenicist elevation of the 'Nordic' phenotype (which in turn influenced America's limits on immigration), to the idealization of Scandinavian social democracy as a post-racial utopia. Brunner traces how crackpot Nazi philosophies that tied the 'Aryan race' to the upper latitudes have influenced modern pseudoscientific fantasies of racial and cultural superiority the world over. The North, Brunner argues, was as much invented as discovered. Full of glittering details embedded in vivid storytelling, Extreme North is a fascinating romp through both actual encounters and popular imaginings, and a disturbing reminder of the power of fantasy to shape the world we live in."--From publisher.
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