Foreing Fictions of Iceland

• Main Author: Neijmann, Daisy
• Other Authors: Isleifsson, Sumarlidi R., Chartier, Daniel
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Presses de l'Université du Québec 2011
• Subjects: Literature; Iceland; Fiction; Stereotype; Islande; Littérature; Nordicité littéraire; Imaginaire du Nord; Göran Tunström; Geritt Jan Zwier; Judith Hermann; Lars Frost; Zane Radcliffe; Skimmer [Shimmer]; De Knoob van Island [Iceland's Knot]; «Kaltblau» [«Cold Blue»]; Smukke biler efter krigen [Smart Cars after the War]; The Killer's Guide to Iceland
• Online Access: http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/10603/1/222023443.pdf

This article will examine ways in which Iceland has been fictionally recreated by the foreign imagination and assess to what extent stereotypical images of Iceland are perpetuated, challenged, and/or reconstructed in contemporary foreign fiction. The role of Iceland in fiction from different countries will be discussed and compared, as well as the way Iceland is “contained” in the language of the novel/story. Perspective, form, and national literary context will be also be explored, as well as the “Iceland novel’s” relationship to other writing on Iceland.