MOMENTAN AUSVERKAUFT
Über dieses Produkt
Product Identifiers
PublisherDuke University Press
ISBN-100822319683
ISBN-139780822319689
eBay Product ID (ePID)861163
Product Key Features
Book TitleColonial Fantasies : Conquest, Family, and Nation in Precolonial Germany, 1770-1870
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1997
TopicEuropean / German, Europe / Germany, Sociology / General, Imperialism, Subjects & Themes / General
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Political Science, Social Science, History
AuthorSusanne Zantop
Book SeriesPost-Contemporary Interventions Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight20 oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN96-054617
Reviews"Colonial Fantasies is an excellent contribution to the understanding of German colonialism and its representational regimes." John K. Noyes, University of Cape Town"Susanne Zantrop has already established herself as one of the leading scholars in eighteenth and nineteenth-century German literature and culture, and it is no surprise that her long-awaited book is so compelling. Her historically informed study of German fantasies. . . breaks new ground at the intersections of literature, philosophy, and the 'political unconscious'." Daniel Wilson, University of California"[A] highly stimulating study on pre-colonial German colonial writing . . . Zantop's dense and clearly defined study breaks truly new ground; it can only be hoped that Germanists will be encouraged to follow up some of the exciting avenues opened up by this book." - Modern Language Review, 95.2, 2000, “ Colonial Fantasies is an excellent contribution to the understanding of German colonialism and its representational regimes.�-John K. Noyes, University of Cape Town, "Susanne Zantop has already established herself as one of the leading scholars in eighteenth and nineteenth-century German literature and culture, and it is no surprise that her long-awaited book is so compelling. Her historically informed study of German fantasies. . . breaks new ground at the intersections of literature, philosophy, and the 'political unconscious'."-W. Daniel Wilson, University of California, "Susanne Zantop has already established herself as one of the leading scholars in eighteenth and nineteenth-century German literature and culture, and it is no surprise that her long-awaited book is so compelling. Her historically informed study of German fantasies. . . breaks new ground at the intersections of literature, philosophy, and the 'political unconscious'."--W. Daniel Wilson, University of California, " Colonial Fantasies is an excellent contribution to the understanding of German colonialism and its representational regimes." John K. Noyes, University of Cape Town"Susanne Zantrop has already established herself as one of the leading scholars in eighteenth and nineteenth-century German literature and culture, and it is no surprise that her long-awaited book is so compelling. Her historically informed study of German fantasies. . . breaks new ground at the intersections of literature, philosophy, and the 'political unconscious'." Daniel Wilson, University of California"[A] highly stimulating study on pre-colonial German colonial writing . . . Zantop's dense and clearly defined study breaks truly new ground; it can only be hoped that Germanists will be encouraged to follow up some of the exciting avenues opened up by this book." - Modern Language Review, 95.2, 2000, " Colonial Fantasies is an excellent contribution to the understanding of German colonialism and its representational regimes."--John K. Noyes, University of Cape Town "Susanne Zantop has already established herself as one of the leading scholars in eighteenth and nineteenth-century German literature and culture, and it is no surprise that her long-awaited book is so compelling. Her historically informed study of German fantasies. . . breaks new ground at the intersections of literature, philosophy, and the 'political unconscious'."--W. Daniel Wilson, University of California, " Colonial Fantasies is an excellent contribution to the understanding of German colonialism and its representational regimes."--John K. Noyes, University of Cape Town, " Colonial Fantasies is an excellent contribution to the understanding of German colonialism and its representational regimes."-John K. Noyes, University of Cape Town
Table Of ContentContents 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
SynopsisSince 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., 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., 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.
LC Classification NumberPT363
