Ørskov , F F 2019 , ' From Nordic Romanticism to Nordic Modernity : Danish Tourist Brochures in Nazi Germany, 1929-39 ' , Journal of Contemporary History , vol. 55 , no. 1 , pp. 29-51 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009418815319
Title: | From Nordic Romanticism to Nordic Modernity : Danish Tourist Brochures in Nazi Germany, 1929-39 |
Author: | Ørskov, Frederik Forrai |
Contributor organization: | Centre for Nordic Studies CENS Nordic Studies Department of Cultures |
Date: | 2019 |
Language: | eng |
Number of pages: | 23 |
Belongs to series: | Journal of Contemporary History |
ISSN: | 0022-0094 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009418815319 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10138/304949 |
Abstract: | This article probes Danish tourist brochures and other promotional material distributed in Germany from 1929-39. Through an analysis of a number of publications, it traces how the Tourist Association of Denmark invoked tourist imaginaries related to Nordic race theory and Nordic romanticism in the material in a variety of ways throughout the decade. Ultimately, however, it is shown that a certain discourse of Nordic modernity would come to dominate towards the end of the 1930s, also in the promotional material distributed in Nazi Germany, a society otherwise highly susceptible to the visual language of Nordic romanticism and Nordic race theory. Thus, the post-war image of the social democratic Norden was powerful already in the tourist marketers’ negotiations of national self-identification and belonging during the last pre-war years. |
Subject: | 615 History and Archaeology |
Peer reviewed: | Yes |
Usage restriction: | closedAccess |
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