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Introduction PART I 1. Hamsun’s Growth of the Soil: Celebrating Self-Reliance 2. Johann Gottlieb, Teutonic Ideals and Hamsun’s racism 3. Hamsun, Luther, and the Sacredness of Whiteness 4. Inger’s Journey in Hamsun’s Forest: Bound but Strong 5. Isak as Homo Economicus: Capitalism and Colonial Mindsets 6. White mobility: Village to Forest and Sellenrå to the USA 7. Applying Dialogic Theory to Hamsun’s Growth of the Soil PART II 8. Garlands of Honor: Kristin Lavransdatter and Izzat 9. Kristin Lavransdatter: A Mirror of Religious and Cultural Evolution 10. Father-Daughter Bonds in Kristin Lavransdatter 11. Foucault, Kristin Lavransdatter, and the Patriarchal Panopticon 12. Romantic Hierarchies: Class in the Garland 13. Lady Åshild: A Postcolonial Challenge to Religious Hegemony 14. Applying a Pedagogy of Discomfort to Kristin Lavransdatter Part III 15. Solbakken & Granliden: Bjørnson’s Intercultural Shadows 16. Rural Roots, Urban Realities: Synnøve Solbakken and Intercultural Identity 17. Words as Weapons: Symbolic Violence in Bjørnson’s Tale 18. The Scars of Abandonment: From Aslak to Afghanistan 19. Church and School in Synnøve Solbakken: Norway’s Civilizing Missions 20. Reclaiming Emigration: From Synnøve Solbakken to Coming to America 21. Applying Postcolonial Pedagogy to Bjørnson’s Synnøve Solbakken Conclusion |