Out of Africa

Isak Dinesen

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Aiken, Susan Hardy. Isak Dinesen and the Engendering of Narrative. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Hannah, Donald. Isak Dinesen and Karen Blixen: the Mask and the Reality. New York: Putnam, 1971.

Horton, Susan R. Difficult Women, Artful Lives: Olive Schreiner and Isak Dinesen, In and Out of Africa. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1995.

JanMohamed, Abdul R. "Isak Dinesen: The Generation of Mythic Consciousness," in Manichean Aesthetics: The Politics of Literature of Colonial African. Amherst: University of Massachuettes Press, 1983.

Johannesson, Eric O. The World of Isak Dinesen. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1961.

Langbaum, Robert. The Gayety of Visions: A Study of Isak Dinesen's Art. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964.

Magowan, Robin. Narcissus and Orpheus: Pastoral in Sand, Formentin, Jewett, Alain-Fournier, and Dinesen. London: Oxford University Press, 1974.

Pelensky, Olga, editor. Isak Dinesen: Critical Views. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1993.

Thurman, Judith. Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982.

Trzebinski, Errol. Silence Will Speak: A Study of the Life of Denys Finch Hatton and His Relationship with Karen Blixen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977.

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