A selective list of literary criticism for the Danish-Kenyan novelist and short-story writer Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen), including signed articles by recognized scholars, peer and editor reviewed articles, and web sites that follow MLA guidelines for web pages.
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Boynton, Victoria, and Jo Malin. On Out of Africa and postcolonial autobiography, in Encyclopedia of Women's Autobiography (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005). Preview at Google Books.
Branson, Stephanie. "Dinesen in three dimensions: A comparing of irony in two films of Dinesen's stories." Literature Film Quarterly, 2000
Brantly, Susan. "Isak Dinesen: The Danish Scheherezade." Scandinavian Review, Autumn 2002
Donalson, Linda. An account of Isak Denisen's struggles with syphlis, exerpt from Out of Isak Dinesen in Africa by Linda Donelson MD
Donalson, Linda. A review of Donelson's Out of Isak Dinesen in Africa. Reviewed by Linda Richards in January Magazine
Lewis, Simon. White Women Writers and Their African Invention (Univ. Press of Florida, 2003). Covers Isak Dinesen, Nadine Gordimer, and many more. Preview at Google Books.
Rashkin, Esther. "A recipe for mourning: Isak Dinesen's 'Babette's Feast.'" Style, Fall, 1995
Schuler, Jean. "Kierkegaard at Babette's Feast: The Return to the Finite." On the influence of Kierkegaard on Isak Dinesen. The Journal of Religion & Film, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1997)
Stambaugh, Sara. "Isak Dinesen in America," a talk by Professor Emeritus Sara Stambaugh, University of Alberta, 10/28/98
Thurman, Judith. Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller (Macmillan, 1995). Preview at Google Books.
Ward, David. "Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) Out of Africa," in Chronicles of Darkness (Routledge, 1989). Preview at Google Books.
Wilkinson, Lynn R. "Hannah Arendt on Isak Dinesen: Between Storytelling and Theory." Comparative Literature, Winter 2004
An introduction to the work of the author of Out of Africa, Isak Dinesen, from the Postcolonial web site at Emory
A chronology for Isak Dinesen, also a list of Isak Dinesen's works. Linda G. Donelson, at the karenblixen.com website
"When Isak Dinesen met Marilyn Monroe." Independent, The (London), Dec 23, 1995 by Nancy Caldwell Sorel
"Karen Blixen's Coffee Years" by Linda Rice Lorenzetti. In Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, 1999
Web site of the Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) Museum, which is housed in the original home of Karen Blixen, in Kenya
About Isak Dinesen's (Karen Blixen's) Danish home, now a museum, by Ann Wallace, from Literarytraveler.com
A short biography of Isak Dinesen from the Royal Danish Embassy (removed)
An introduction to Isak Dinesen from the Danish Literature Center (removed)
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