Helene Engnes Birkeli

List of John Benjamins publications for which Helene Engnes Birkeli plays a role.

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Birkeli, Helene Engnes 2024 Chapter 3. Touching difference and colonial space: Niels P. Holbech’s Little Marie on Neky’s Arm A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: The Atlantic world and beyond, Dobie, Madeleine, Mads Anders Baggesgaard and Karen-Margrethe Simonsen (eds.), pp. 51–77 | Chapter
This essay argues that Little Marie on Neky’s Arm (1838), a portrait by the Danish painter Niels P. Holbech, provides a challenge to sentimental constructions of the West-Indian “nanny” figure. The relational ambiguity of this painting recalls that of the wet nurse and her charge, a figure of… read more