Background
Aiken, Susan Hardy was born on November 4, 1943 in Brooklyn. Daughter of Sutton Labon and Mae Hardy.
( Although Isak Dinesen has been widely acclaimed as a po...)
Although Isak Dinesen has been widely acclaimed as a popular writer, her work has received little sustained critical attention. In this revisionist study, Susan Hardy Aiken takes up the complex relations of gender, sexuality, and representation in Dinesen's narratives. Drawing on feminist, psychoanalytic, and post-structuralist theories, Aiken shows how the form and meaning of Dinesen's texts are affected by her doubled situations as a Dane who wrote in English, a European who lived for many years in Africa, and a woman who wrote under a male pseudonym within a male-centered literary tradition. In a series of readings that range across Dinesen's career, Aiken demonstrates that Dinesen persistently asserted the inseparability of gender and the engendering of narrative. She argues that Dinesen's texts anticipate in remarkable ways some of the most radical insights of contemporary literary theories, particularly those of French feminist criticism. Aiken also offers a major rereading of Out of Africa that both addresses its distinctiveness as a colonialist text and places it within Dinesen's larger oeuvre. In Aiken's account, Dinesen's work emerges as a compelling inquiry into sexual difference and the ways it informs culture, subjectivity, and the language that is their medium. This important book will at last give Isak Dinesen's work the prominence it deserves in literary studies.
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Aiken, Susan Hardy was born on November 4, 1943 in Brooklyn. Daughter of Sutton Labon and Mae Hardy.
Bachelor, Furman University, 1964. Master of Arts, Duke University, 1966. Doctor of Philosophy, Duke University, 1971.
Instructor English University Georgia, Athens, 1966-1969. Assistant professor State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1971-1972, Suffolk College, Selden, New York, 1972-1973, University Arizona, Tucson, 1973-1977, associate professor, 1977-1990, professor, since 1990, acting head department French and Italian, 1992-1993, University Distinguished professor, since 1998, director graduate studies in literature, 2000—2004, acting head department English, since 2005. Consultant University Arizona Press, since 1984, University Arizona Women's Studies Program, since 1981, Arizona Humanities Council, 1978-1983, Ford Foundation Western States Curriculum Project, 1984, Hobart and William Smith College, 1988, American University, 1988, Rice University, 1995, 97, University Press of Florida, City College of New York, 1998, 1999, 2005.
Member advisory committee Southwest Institute for Research on Women, since 1980. Referee John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1985, 86, 87, 88, 90, 91, 92, 96, Newberry Library. Research Center, 1989, American Council of Learned Societies, 1989, 2005, National Endowment of the Humanities, 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 96, 2000, others.
Judge Margaret Church award Modern Fiction Studies, 1995-1996.
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( Although Isak Dinesen has been widely acclaimed as a po...)
(Isak Dinesen and the engendering of Narrative)
Member Modern Language Association (advising committee publications 1985-1989), National Women's Studies Association, Society.for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies, Browning Institute.
Married Christopher Franklin Carroll, January 1, 1978. Children: James Buchanan Aiken, Alden Hardy Carroll.