Intertextual Exoticism
Oceania and Colonial Loss in Early Twentieth-Century German Literature
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 24 April 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9798765135525
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages376 pages
- Size 218x144x24 mm
- Weight 600 g
- Language English 648
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Short description:
Examines how Imperial Germany's loss of Oceania after the First World War and its post-war crises of national identity played out in a body of German exoticist literature about Oceania published after 1914.
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Intertextual Exoticism reads a body of non-canonical German exoticist literature published after imperial Germany's loss of colonial Oceania in 1914, applying theories of ""intertextuality"" (Kristeva) and recent scholarship on literary exoticism to explore Germany's postwar crises of psychology, masculinity, and national identity mapped onto Oceanic spaces.
Many readers are familiar with late Victorian texts expressing imperial Britain's anxieties. Richard Sperber expands the scope of these texts in the context of a post-imperial Europe, examining how German exoticist literature, published after German colonial loss in Oceania in 1914, intensifies the gothic themes and subjectivities of these Victorian texts.
The first part of this volume examines eight adventure narratives of Oceania, demonstrating how they do not necessarily present or represent a single, unified German colonial project. They take place on islands owned by Australia and Britain, and the unprepared German protagonists-amateur naturalists and bungling traders-are compared unfavourably to resolute Anglophone adventurers. The second part then pairs five well-known exoticist texts, including Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Stevenson's The Beach of Falesï¿1⁄2, Haggard's She, Hitchens' The Garden of Allah, and Wilde's Salomï¿1⁄2, with five non-canonical exoticist German texts. Sperber shows through these pairings how German literary exoticism becomes a transnational and intertextual literature that rereads dominant themes in 20th-century Europe's greater literatures of exoticism and colonial loss.
Table of Contents:
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Introduction
Part I: Eight Adventure Narratives
1. Naturalists
2. Traders
3. Settlers
4. Island Kings
5. Conclusion
Part II: Five Exoticists Pairs
6. Exotic Prosopopoeia in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Max Dauthendey's ""Letzte Kuestenfahrt: Ein Bruchstueck""
7. The Exotic Mother in Robert Louis Stevenson's ""The Beach of Falesa"" and Willy Seidel's Der Buschhahn
8. The Exotic Femme Fatale in Rider Haggard's She and Nobert Jacques' Piraths Insel
9. Spiritual Exoticism in Robert Hitchens' The Garden of Allah and Ernst Friedrich Loehndorff's Die Frau von Hawai
10. Neurotic Exoticism in Oscar Wilde's Salome and Wilhelm Speyer's Suedsee
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index
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