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Journal Article
Other Mothers and the Limits of Bohemia in Alberte og friheten and Bare Alberte
2016
Overview
The trilogy is an example of what might be called the feminist literature of sexual difference: a literature that treats \"woman,\" openly and searchingly, as a sexed category and as an embodied experience that marks an individual's difference from men, as well as her difference from herself.4 In this article, I consider how Sandel's depictions of differences among women complicate the difference of woman as shared reproductive destiny, gendered subordination, and \"samled[e] fornedrelse\" (2004, 545) [collective degradation]. According to historian Jerrold Seigel, bohemia \"was the appropriation of marginal lifestyles by young and not-so-young bourgeois, for the dramatization of ambivalence toward their own social identities and destinies\" (1986, 11). Racial differentiation also serves to redefine the boundaries of her Northern European selfhood, and can refocus the reader's attention on her bourgeois formation.5 In the end, Alberte's position as the citizen of a peripheral nation residing at the cosmopolitan heart of colonial Europe-Paris-métropole-underwrites the primary focus of the trilogy: the fits and starts of her bohemian project of self-realization. In order to reopen the question of race, I engage Ellen Rees's important assessment in \"'Hudens Angst': The Function of the Female Nude in the Opening and Closing Scenes of Cora Sandel's Alberte og friheten\" (2002) and \"Spectacle, Politics, and Writing in Cora Sandel's Alberte og friheten and Bare Alberte\" (2005).6 Rees argues that Alberte moves from object of the male gaze to subject in the second novel, but that she does so \"on the back of the African woman\" (2002, 276). After...
