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Author Kopp, Kristin Leigh.

Title Germany's wild east : constructing Poland as colonial space / Kristin Kopp
Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (288 pages)
Series Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany.
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
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."--Project Muse
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Germans -- Poland -- History
Colonies in literature.
German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Globalization.
HISTORY -- General.
Colonies in literature
German literature
Germans
Intellectual life
International relations
SUBJECT Germany -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054610
Germany -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054609
Germany -- Territorial expansion -- Philosophy
Poland -- Relations -- Germany
Germany -- Relations -- Poland
Subject Germany
Poland
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012012805
ISBN 9780472028580
0472028588