Table of Contents:
  • Discourses of race and primitivism in Scandinavia
  • Hamsun's women as scapegoats for modernity's sins
  • Imagining the Indians
  • Imagining black and white
  • A taste of the Orient
  • Imagining the sly magic "lapps"
  • Imagining degeneration and revolution
  • The rhetoric of defense in Hamsun's Paa gjengrodde stier.