TY - JOUR AU - Theodorsen, Cathrine PY - 2008/02/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Political realism and the fantastic romantic German liberal discourse and the Sámi in Theodor Mügge’s novel Afraja (1854) JF - Nordlit JA - Nordlit VL - 0 IS - 23 SE - Articles DO - 10.7557/13.1350 UR - https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/1350 SP - 355-370 AB - The novel <em>Afraja</em>, written by the German author and liberal Theodor M&uuml;gge and published in 1854 provides an opportunity to explore connections between travel writing and adventure stories from the perspective of one of Germany's most popular writers of the nineteenth century. The focus of my discussion in this paper is to explore the implications of the meeting between a fictional S&aacute;mi, living in the exotic North and a Danish aristocratic adventurer whose attitudes reflect the discourse of M&uuml;gge's politically liberal views. Additionally, M&uuml;gges fiction sketches out different images of the S&aacute;mi. ER -