Dag Heede : The erotic imagination between the lines: Karen Blixen's/Isak Dinesen's "The Blank Page"/"Det ubeskrevne Blad"

Événement passé
22 février 2022
10h 12h
Ensemble Saint-Georges en s. 321. (4 Rue Saint-Georges, 67000 Strasbourg)

Karen Blixen (1885-1962) is one of the most erotic and queer writers of Danish/English literature, a fact that at least the Danish reception has tried to ignore for decades. Through a close reading of the short, dense and naughty story of "The Blank Page"/"Det ubeskrevne Blad", I will demonstrate how blasphemous and provocative Blixen can be if we dare to rid ourselves of our heteronormative inhibitions.

 

Dag Heede is an Associative Professor at The Department for the Study of Culture at the University of Southern Denmark.