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Germany's Wild East : Constructing Poland as Colonial Space /

"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 refer...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kopp, Kristin Leigh
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.