Death from Torture as a Thing of Beauty? Karen Blixen and Kitosch’s Story
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10736448 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lasse Horne Kjaeldgaard (0000-0002-0912-1146, Roskilde University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 91 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 345-370 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Scandinavian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0036-5637 • E-ISSN: 2163-8195 |
| Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3368/sca.91.3.0345 |
| OpenAlex | W4391073833 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
For more than 4 decades, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, a longtime Nobel Prize in Literature favorite, has been an intense and vocal critic of Karen Blixen’s literary rendering of life in the British protectorate-turned-colony where she resided from 1914 to 1931, designated as British East Africa (BEA)
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Beauty · Colonialism · Literature · Political science · Protectorate · Torture · African history and culture studies · History · Law · South African History and Culture
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |