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Colonial Fantasies

Conquest, Family, and Nation in Precolonial Germany, 1770-1870

By: Susanne Zantop

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Colonial Fantasies

Conquest, Family, and Nation in Precolonial Germany, 1770-1870

By: Susanne Zantop

Since Germany became a colonial power relatively late, postcolonial theorists and histories of colonialism have thus far paid little attention to it. Uncovering Germany’s colonial legacy and imagination, Susanne Zantop reveals the significance of colonial fantasies—a kind of colonialism without colonies—in the formation of German national identity. Through readings of historical, anthropological, literary, and popular texts, Zantop explores imaginary colonial encounters of "Germans" with "natives" in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century literature, and shows how these colonial fantasies acted as a rehearsal for actual colonial ventures in Africa, South America, and the Pacific. From as early as the sixteenth century, Germans preoccupied themselves with an imaginary drive for colonial conquest and possession that eventually grew into a collective obsession. Zantop illustrates the gendered character of Germany’s colonial imagination through critical readings of popular novels, plays, and travel literature that imagine sexual conquest and surrender in colonial territory—or love and blissful domestic relations between colonizer and colonized. She looks at scientific articles, philosophical essays, and political pamphlets that helped create a racist colonial discourse and demonstrates that from its earliest manifestations, the German colonial imagination contained ideas about a specifically German national identity, different from, if not superior to, most others.

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Duke University Press

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0822382113

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9780822382119

Little Detours

The Letters and Plays of Luise Gottsched (1713-1762)

By: Susanne Kord

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Little Detours

The Letters and Plays of Luise Gottsched (1713-1762)

By: Susanne Kord

Both the letters, edited and censored by Runckel, and the plays, commissioned and edited by her husband, reveal a number of intriguing "detours" from the path of conventionality: biographical aberrations in her letters (her chagrined loyalty to her husband, her passionate "friendship" with Runckel) and poetological deviations from her husband's poetics expressed in her dramas."--BOOK JACKET.

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252

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Camden House

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1571131485

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The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature

By: Friederike Eigler,Susanne Kord

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The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature

By: Friederike Eigler,Susanne Kord

Today, a multiplicity of feminist approaches has become an integral part of the fields of German literary and cultural studies. This comprehensive reference provides a much needed synthesis of the contribution women have made to German literature and culture. In entries for more than 500 topics, the volume surveys literary periods, epochs, and genres; critical approaches and theories; important authors and works; female stereotypes; laws and historical developments; literary concepts and themes; and organizations and archives relevant to women and women's studies. Each entry offers a concise identification of the term, a discussion of its significance, and a bibliography of works for further reading. Today, a multiplicity of feminist approaches has become an integral part of the fields of German literary and cultural studies. While biographical works on women writers exist, this is the first reference to synthesize the wealth of feminist scholarship in German studies. While existing reference works focus exclusively on women authors, this volume contains numerous topical entries and covers the role of women in German literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present day. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on more than 500 topics. While some entries are provided for important women writers and other individuals, the bulk of the volume provides information on literary periods, epochs, and genres; critical approaches and theories; female stereotypes; laws and historical developments; literary concepts and themes; and organizations and archives relevant to women and women's studies. Each entry includes a brief identification of the subject, a discussion of feminist thought on the topic, and a brief bibliography. Entries are written by numerous contributors and reflect a range of critical/theoretical approaches.

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691

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1567507522

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Women Peasant Poets in Eighteenth-century England, Scotland, and Germany

Milkmaids on Parnassus

By: Susanne Kord

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Women Peasant Poets in Eighteenth-century England, Scotland, and Germany

Milkmaids on Parnassus

By: Susanne Kord

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Camden House

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1571132686

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The German Student Movement and the Literary Imagination

Transnational Memories of Protest and Dissent

By: Susanne Rinner

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The German Student Movement and the Literary Imagination

Transnational Memories of Protest and Dissent

By: Susanne Rinner

Through a close reading of novels by Ulrike Kolb, Irmtraud Morgner, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Bernhard Schlink, Peter Schneider, and Uwe Timm, this book traces the cultural memory of the 1960s student movement in German fiction, revealing layers of remembering and forgetting that go beyond conventional boundaries of time and space. These novels engage this contestation by constructing a palimpsest of memories that reshape readers’ understanding of the 1960s with respect to the end of the Cold War, the legacy of the Third Reich, and the Holocaust. Topographically, these novels refute assertions that East Germans were isolated from the political upheaval that took place in the late 1960s and 1970s. Through their aesthetic appropriations and subversions, these multicultural contributions challenge conventional understandings of German identity and at the same time lay down claims of belonging within a German society that is more openly diverse than ever before.

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180

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Berghahn Books

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0857457551

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9780857457554

Colonial Fantasies

Conquest, Family, and Nation in Precolonial Germany, 1770-1870

By: Susanne Zantop

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Conquest, Family, and Nation in Precolonial Germany, 1770-1870

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Colonial Fantasies

Conquest, Family, and Nation in Precolonial Germany, 1770-1870

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Colonial Fantasies

Conquest, Family, and Nation in Precolonial Germany, 1770-1870

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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.

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Book's by Susanne Zantop

Colonial Fantasies

Colonial Fantasies

Little Detours

Little Detours

The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature

The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature

Women Peasant Poets in Eighteenth-century England, Scotland, and Germany

Women Peasant Poets in Eighteenth-century England, Scotland, and Germany

The German Student Movement and the Literary Imagination

The German Student Movement and the Literary Imagination

Colonial Fantasies

Colonial Fantasies

Colonial Fantasies

Colonial Fantasies

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