Images of the North

Jakobsson, Sverrir

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“…All of these terms can carry various layers of significance, depending on the context in which they are employed and by whom. For critical discussions on the ideological/imagological construction of 'the North', see especially Leerssen (2019), Fülberth andMeier (2007), Arndt (2004), Jakobsson (2009), andFjågesund (2014). 7 That this dissonance between city and the countryside is still an issue in contemporary Friesland has been demonstrated by van Hout and Peverelli (2019).…”

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“Almost Like Family. Or Were They?” Vikings, Frisian Identity, and the Nordification of the Past

Halink

2022

Humanities

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In the course of the twentieth century, the glorified image of Viking Age Scandinavia exerted an increasing attraction on intellectuals and nation builders in remote parts of Europe, especially those which self-identified as peripheral, marginalized, and ‘northern’. In the Dutch province of Friesland, the cultivation of a Frisian national identity went hand in hand with an antagonizing process of self-contrastation vis-à-vis the urbanized heartland in the west of the country. Fueled by these anti-Holland sentiments, the adoption of Nordic identity models could serve to create alternative narrative molds in which to cast the Frisian past. In this article, I will chart this process of cultural “nordification” from its initial phase in the writings of Frisian Scandinavophiles to contemporary remediations of Frisian history in popular culture and public discourses. In this context, special attention will be paid to the reception history of the pagan King Redbad (d. 719) and his modern transformation from ‘God’s enemy’ to beloved national icon.

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“Almost Like Family. Or Were They?” Vikings, Frisian Identity, and the Nordification of the Past

Halink

2022

Humanities

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“…Beller 2007b), the Orient and the Occident (see also part 3 of this volume), the centres and the peripheries (Leerssen 2007), and the North and South (cf. Arndt 2007;Jakobsson 2009;Fjågesund 2014). A notable example of such a combination of geography and imagology is Franz Karl Stanzel's National Character as Literary Stereotype (1980), where these differences are traced back to the old climate hypothesis based on a similar depiction of people from the North and South.…”

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#JeSuisAmatrice: Identity through a Landscape of Wounds; Toward a Geo-Imagology

Brandlechner¹

2022

New Perspectives on Imagology

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“…In the past five decades, studies have focused in particular on contrasting representations of the East and theWest (cf. Beller 2007b), the Orient and the Occident (see also part 3 of this volume), the centres and the peripheries, and the North and South (cf Arndt 2007;Jakobsson 2009;Fjågesund 2014)…”

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