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Colonial Fantasies : Conquest, Family, and Nation in Precolonial Germany, 1770-1870 /
"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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Durham, N.C. :
Duke University Press,
1997.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | "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."--Jacket |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780822382119 |