Iceland and Images of the North

Quebec publishers

With a radically changing world, cultural identity and images have emerged as one of the most challenging issues in the social and cultural sciences. These changes provide an occasion for a thorough reexamination of cultural, historical, political, and economic aspects of society. The INOR (Iceland and Images of the North) group is an interdisciplinary group of Icelandic and non-Icelandic scholars whose recent research on contemporary and historical images of Iceland and the North seeks to analyze the forms these images assume, as well as their function and dynamics. The 21 articles in this book allow readers to seize the variety and complexity of the issues related to images of Iceland.

Table of contents
Iceland and Images of the North	1
Table of Contents	9
Historical Images	37
The Emergence of Nordrlond in Old Norse Medieval Texts, ca. 1100-1400	39
Islands on the Edge: Medieval and Early Modern National Images of Iceland and Greenland	55
The Greco-Roman Heritage and Image Construction in Iceland 1830-1918	81
Old Norse Pery and New Beginnings in Late 18th- and Early 19th- Century Literature	129
Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and German Culture	171
Racist Caricatures in Iceland in the Early 20th Century	201
Monuments to Settlers of the North: A Means to Strengthen National Identity	219
Images of the North, Sublime Nature, and a Pioneering Icelandic Nation	243
Between Nostalgia and Modernity: Competing Discourses in Travel Writing about the Nordic North	269
Contemporary Images	297
Banking on Borealism: Eating, Smelling, and Performing the North	319
Drinking in Iceland and Ideas of the North	343
Nature, Nostalgia, and Narrative: Material Identity in Icelandic Design	365
The Use of English in Iceland: Convenience or a Cultural Threat? A lingua Franca or Lingua Detrimental?	387
The Gender-Equal North: Icelandic Images of Femininity and Masculinity	419
Staging the Nation: Performing Icelandic Nationality during the 1986 Reykjavik Summit	449
The New Viking Wave: Cultural Heritage and Capitalism	475
Foreign Fictions of Iceland	495
The North and the Idea of Iceland Contemporary Cross-Cultural Construction of Representations of Iceland	527
Reflecting Images: The Front Page of Icelandic Tourism Brochures	545
Nation-Branding: A Critical Evaluation. Assessing the Image Building of Iceland	567