Zantop / Fish / Jameson Colonial Fantasies

Conquest, Family, and Nation in Precolonial Germany, 1770-1870
1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8211-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Reihe: Post-Contemporary Interventions

Traces German desires to discover, conquer and dominate ‘new worlds’ -- real and imagined-- expressed in stories and literature during the century preceding any actual German colonization.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zantop, Susanne

Fish, Stanley

Jameson, Fredric

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction I Armchair Conquistadors; or, The Quest for “New Germany” 1 Tiranos animales o alemanes: Germans and the "Conquest" 2 A Conquest of the Intellect II Colonizing Theory: Gender, Race, and the Search for a National Identity 3 Gendering the “Conquest” 4 Racializing the Colony 5 Patagons and Germans III Colonial Families; or, Displacing the Colonizers 6 Fathers and Sons: Donnerstag and Freitag, Campe and Krusoe 7 Husbands and Wives: Colonialism Domesticated 8 Betrothal and Divorce; or, Revolution in the House IV Virgin Islands, Teuton Conquerors 9 The German Columbus 10 The Second Discovery 11 Colonial Fantasies Revisited Epilogue: Vitzliputzli's Revenge Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

At the time of her death, Susanne Zantop was Professor of German and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Department of German Studies at Dartmouth College.