Germany's Wild East : Constructing Poland As Colonial Space.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (270 pages)
- Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany Series .
- Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Germany's Wild East -- 1. Constructing German Colonial Space in the East: Gustav Freytag's Soll und Haben as Colonial Novel -- 2. The Black Pole and Racialized Space in German Inner Colonial Literature -- 3. A German Dracula: Fontane's Effi Briest and the Anxiety of a Reverse-Diffusional Slavic Flood -- 4. "Post-Colonial" Mappings: Cartographic Representations of Lost Colonial Space in the Interwar Period -- 5. Architectural Doppelgänger and "Post-Colonial" Spatial Claims in Fritz Lang's Nibelungen -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Illustrations.
The elements of colonial relationships were easily adapted to address the border between Western and Eastern Europe.
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German literature--19th century--History and criticism. German literature--20th century--History and criticism. Colonies in literature. Germans--Poland--History. Germany--Relations--Poland. Poland--Relations--Germany. Germany--Territorial expansion--Philosophy. Germany--Intellectual life--19th century. Germany--Intellectual life--20th century.