Colonial fantasies : conquest, family, and nation in precolonial Germany, 1770-1870 / Susanne Zantop.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zantop, Susanne, 1945-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Post-contemporary interventions.

Post-contemporary interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

German literature.

Nationalism--Germany--History.

Nationalism.

German literature--18th century--History and criticism.

National characteristics, German, in literature.

Imperialism--History--19th century.

Imperialism.

Military history in literature.

Nationalism in literature.

Colonies in literature.

Families in literature.

Germany--Foreign relations--1789-1900.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 292 pages)

Place of Publication:

Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Armchair Conquistadors; or, The Quest for "New Germany": Tiranos animales o alemanes: Germans and the "Conquest" A Conquest of the Intellect

Colonizing Theory: Gender, Race, and the Search for a National Identity: Gendering the "Conquest" Racializing the Colony. Patagons and Germans

Colonial Families; or, Displacing the Colonizers: Fathers and Sons: Donnerstag and Freitag, Campe and Krusoe. Husbands and Wives: Colonialism Domesticated. Betrothal and Divorce; or, Revolution in the House

Virgin Islands, Teuton Conquerors: The German Columbus. The Second Discovery. Colonial Fantasies Revisited. Epilogue: Vitzliputzli's Revenge.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-285) and index.

ISBN:

9786612904417

9781282904415

1282904418

9780822382119

0822382113

OCLC:

841913139