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- Title
"Plant ikke Upas-Trxet om vor Bolig": Colonial Haunting, Race, and Interracial Marriage in Hans Christian Andersen's Mulatten (1840).
- Authors
Ipsen, Pernille
- Abstract
A literary criticism of the play “Mulatten" by Hans Christian Andersen is presented. It revolves around the character Eleonore and through her explores anxiety and haunting effects of slave owning and colonialism on the owners. It highlights the history of interracial marriage, Danish slave trade history, and sexual relationship between slaves and owners.
- Subjects
MULATTEN (Play); ANDERSEN, Hans Christian, 1805-1875; INTERRACIAL marriage in literature; COLONIES; HISTORY of slave trades
- Publication
Scandinavian Studies, 2016, Vol 88, Issue 2, p129
- ISSN
0036-5637
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.5406/scanstud.88.2.0129