Germany's wild east : constructing Poland as colonial space / Kristin Kopp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kopp, Kristin Leigh.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Series:

Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German literature--19th century--History and criticism.

German literature.

German literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Colonies in literature.

Germans--Poland--History.

Germans.

Germany--Relations--Poland.

Germany.

Poland--Relations--Germany.

Poland.

Germany--Territorial expansion--Philosophy.

Germany--Intellectual life--19th century.

Germany--Intellectual life--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 p.)

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, representations of Poland and the Slavic East cast the region as a primitive, undeveloped, or empty space inhabited by a population destined to remain uncivilized without the aid of external intervention. These depictions often made direct reference to the American Wild West, portraying the eastern steppes as a boundless plain that needed to be wrested from the hands of unruly natives and spatially ordered into German-administrated units. While conventional definitions locate colonial space overseas, Kristin Kopp argues that it was possible to understand both distant continents and adjacent Eastern Europe as parts of the same global periphery dependent upon Western European civilizing efforts. However, proximity to the source of aid translated to greater benefits for Eastern Europe than for more distant regions.

Contents:

Introduction : Germany's wild east

Constructing German colonial space in the east : Gustav Freytag's Soll und Haben as colonial novel

The black Pole and racialized space in German inner colonial literature

A German Dracula : Fontane's Effi Briest and the anxiety of a reverse-diffusional Slavic flood

Post-colonial mappings : cartographic representations of lost colonial space in the interwar period

Architectural Doppelgänger and post-colonial spatial claims in Fritz Lang's Nibelungen.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-250) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9781283658515

1283658518

9780472028580

0472028588

OCLC:

813540629

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.3245954