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A Conspiracy of (Re-)Silence

Summary/Abstract: Denmark, a country inhabited by what is supposedly one of the happiest nations in the world, boasting a humanitarian attitude toward those who are ‘weaker’, including its aid policy towards the third world, has some forgotten, infamous pages in its own history, including its colonial past. This ‘national amnesia’, or more precisely, the conscious process of repression of content that is inconvenient for Danish national self-identification, returns in contemporary culture and literature. Pushed off to the ‘rubbish heap’ of the past, it comes to the fore, on the one hand, in the form of fear of the outsider, ‘national self-sufficiency’, and subcutaneous racism; on the other, it becomes the object of literary creations that span the apologetic attitude towards the past and the accusations made against Danish colonist ‘benefactors’.

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