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  1. Science fiction and empire
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    This book is about the human desire to experiment with empire. In the past it was done with real soldiers and expeditions and slaves and trade and misery and force. In the future it will be done with generation ships and off-world pioneers, robots... more

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    This book is about the human desire to experiment with empire. In the past it was done with real soldiers and expeditions and slaves and trade and misery and force. In the future it will be done with generation ships and off-world pioneers, robots and invasion, electronic sheep and people who just don’t want to be pushed around any more. Beginning with a discussion of who ‘we’ are (hopefully, the good guys) and who ‘they’ are (anyone who isn’t us), this narrative scans the lights of science fiction looking at the places where humans try to touch a variety of futures. Is SF designed to purge our dark imperialistic fantasies, or is it a laboratory of mind-experiments: carefully considered trials of political, social and economic scenarios? Which tomorrow are we more likely to accept – where the blood of empire is red or read? Examining such classic SF texts as Lasswitz’s Two Planets and Wells’ The War of the Worlds, this book investigates Asimov’s Robots and Heinlein’s Moon, as well as Robinson’s Mars and Banks’ postcolonial Culture. We see the rise-and-fall of empire through the eyes of Miller, Clarke and Wyndham, and the apparently inevitable failure of the imperial project as discussed in Solaris, The Dispossessed and The Forever War. This book offers an insight into the darkest power abuses of mankind; where the oppression, silencing and marginalisation of those who are not-us continues and flourishes. Who are the monsters of our future – the Others invading from another planet, or the unseen and unrecognised Other within?

     

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    ISBN: 9781781388334
    Series: Liverpool science fiction texts and studies
    Subjects: Science fiction, English / History and criticism; Science fiction, American / History and criticism; Imperialism in literature; Macht <Motiv>; Science-Fiction-Literatur; Politisches Denken; Englisch; Imperialismus <Motiv>
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  2. Imperial eyes
    travel writing and transculturation
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Routledge, London [u.a.]

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    ISBN: 0415060958; 041502675X
    RVK Categories: NQ 9300
    Edition: Repr.
    Subjects: Kolonialismus <Motiv>; Imperialismus; Geschichte; Reiseliteratur; Reisebericht
    Scope: XII, 257 S., Ill.
  3. The politics of decolonial investigations
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham ; London

    "Walter D. Mignolo provides a sweeping examination of how coloniality has operated around the world in its myriad forms between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries while calling for a decolonial politics that would delink from all forms of... more

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    "Walter D. Mignolo provides a sweeping examination of how coloniality has operated around the world in its myriad forms between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries while calling for a decolonial politics that would delink from all forms of Western knowledge"--

     

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  4. Decolonizing German and European history at the museum
    Author: Sieg, Katrin
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor

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    ISBN: 9780472075102
    RVK Categories: AK 86000 ; NB 3400 ; NQ 9300
    Series: Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
    Subjects: Europa; Deutschland; Museum; Postkolonialismus; Entkolonialisierung; ; Museum; Kolonialismus; Imperialismus; Kunst; Gesellschaft; Antirassismus; ;
    Scope: viii, 316 Seiten, Illustrationen
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  5. Deutschsprachige Reiseberichte über Korea um 1900
    Figurationen des Wissens über das Fremde
    Author: Hong, Jihee
    Published: [2020]; © 2020
    Publisher:  Ergon Verlag, Baden-Baden

    Die Zeit um 1900 markiert die Schwelle vom ‚Nicht-Wissen‘ zum ‚Wissen‘ über Korea: In diesem Zeitraum erschien der erste deutschsprachige Bericht einer Korea-Reise. Die textuellen und bildlichen Darstellungsstrategien des ‚Wissens über Korea‘ werden... more

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    Die Zeit um 1900 markiert die Schwelle vom ‚Nicht-Wissen‘ zum ‚Wissen‘ über Korea: In diesem Zeitraum erschien der erste deutschsprachige Bericht einer Korea-Reise. Die textuellen und bildlichen Darstellungsstrategien des ‚Wissens über Korea‘ werden in dieser Studie anhand von vier ausgewählten Reiseberichten analysiert, die zwischen 1880 und 1915 erschienen. Das bislang kaum erschlossene Material wird vor dem Hintergrund des komplexen Verhältnisses zwischen Reiseliteratur sowie Wissensgenerierung und -vermittlung untersucht. Die Perspektive der südkoreanischen Germanistin auf die Schriften der ‚Anderen‘ über das ‚Eigene‘ offenbart einen innovativen Blick auf die damit verbundenen Praktiken und Machtstrukturen. The period around 1900 marks the threshold from “not knowing” to “knowing” about Korea. During this time the first German-language travelogue appeared. The study is based on four selected travelogues written between 1880 and 1915 and analyzes the representational strategies of the text and pictures on their “knowledge of Korea”. The material has hardly been explored to date. It is examined against the background of the complex relationship between travel literature and the generation and transfer of knowledge about the “other culture”, as well as the cultural practices and power structures associated with it. The perspective of the South Korean Germanist on the writings of “the others”, the German-speaking Europeans, about her “own” heritage, the Korean Culture, is extraordinarily revealing.

     

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  6. "Barbaren" und "Weiße Teufel"
    Kulturkonflikte und Imperialismus in Asien vom 18. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert
    Contributor: Auch, Eva-Maria
    Published: 1997
    Publisher:  Schöningh, Paderborn

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    Contributor: Auch, Eva-Maria
    Language: German
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    ISBN: 3506704028
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    RVK Categories: NQ 9200 ; NQ 9300 ; NK 4950
    DDC Categories: 300; 950
    Subjects: Imperialismus; Kulturkonflikt; Kolonialismus
    Scope: 172 S.
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  7. <<The>> "lesser breeds without the law": eurocentrism, racism, imperialism, and colonialism in boys' adventure novels
    Robert Michael Ballantyne's "The settler and the savage", George Alfred Henty's "The young colonists", and John Buchan's "Prester John"
  8. Islands of empire
    pop culture and U.S. power
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Univ. of Texas Press, Austin, Tex.

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    ISBN: 9781477307557
    Edition: 1. paperback ed.
    Series: Film and media studies: American Studies
    Subjects: USA; Imperialismus; Pop-Kultur; Massenmedien; Kuba <Motiv>; Philippinen <Motiv>; Puerto Rico <Motiv>; Hawaii <Motiv>;
    Scope: IX, 238 S., Ill.
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    Literaturverz. S. [215] - 222

  9. Der russische Imperialismus
    Studien über den Zusammenhang von innerer und auswärtiger Politik; 1860 - 1914
    Published: 1977
    Publisher:  Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen

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    ISBN: 3525359802
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    RVK Categories: MG 85030 ; NP 6000 ; NQ 9460
    DDC Categories: 940
    Series: Kritische Studien zur Geschichtswissenschaft ; 27
    Subjects: Imperialismus; Außenpolitik; Innenpolitik
    Scope: 344 S.
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  10. Liberalismus und imperialistischer Staat
    der Imperialismus als Problem liberaler Parteien in Deutschland 1890 - 1914
    Published: 1975
    Publisher:  Vandenhoeck u. Ruprecht, Göttingen

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    Contributor: Holl, Karl; Albertin, Lothar
    Language: German
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    ISBN: 3525333854
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    RVK Categories: NK 6720 ; NP 3450 ; NQ 9300 ; MC 6300
    DDC Categories: 943
    Series: Kleine Vandenhoeck-Reihe ; 1415
    Subjects: Liberalismus; Imperialismus; Liberale Partei
    Scope: 176 S.
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  11. Montankonzerne und "Drittes Reich"
    der Gegensatz zwischen Monopolindustrie und Befehlswirtschaft in der deutschen Rüstung und Expansion, 1936 - 1944
    Published: 1988
    Publisher:  Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen

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    Language: German
    Media type: Dissertation
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    ISBN: 3525357400
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    RVK Categories: NQ 2290 ; NW 6005 ; QR 510
    DDC Categories: 330; 943
    Series: Kritische Studien zur Geschichtswissenschaft ; 78
    Subjects: Montanindustrie; Drittes Reich; Rüstungswirtschaft; Rüstungsindustrie; Planwirtschaft; Staat; Wirtschaft; Imperialismus
    Other subjects: Pleiger, Paul (1899-1985); Poensgen, Ernst (1871-1949)
    Scope: 394 S., graph. Darst.
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    Zugl.: Bielefeld, Univ., Diss., 1986

  12. Christliche Mission und deutscher Imperialismus
    eine politische Geschichte ihrer Beziehungen während der deutschen Kolonialzeit (1884 - 1914) unter besonderer Berücksichtigung Afrikas und Chinas
    Published: 1982
    Publisher:  Schöningh, Paderborn

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    Language: German
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    ISBN: 3506774646
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    RVK Categories: BO 6480 ; NQ 9400 ; BO 1890
    DDC Categories: 230; 943; 950; 960
    Series: Sammlung Schöningh zur Geschichte und Gegenwart
    Subjects: Kolonialismus; Mission; Kolonie; Imperialismus
    Scope: 444 S., Ill.
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    Zugl.: Münster, Westf., Univ., Habil.-Schr., 1981

    Zugl.: Münster, Westfalen, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 1980/81

  13. Sozialistische Imperialismusdeutung
    Studien zu ihrer Geschichte
    Published: 1973
    Publisher:  Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen

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    ISBN: 3525333358
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    DDC Categories: 320
    Series: Kleine Vandenhoeck-Reihe ; 375
    Subjects: Imperialismustheorie; Sozialismus; Imperialismus; Deutung
    Scope: 136 S.
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  14. Grani rossijskogo samosoznanija
    imperija, nacionalʹnoe soznanie, messianizm i vizantizm Rossii
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Bafing, Moskva

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    Language: Russian
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    ISBN: 9785990216914
    RVK Categories: KH 3030 ; KH 3688
    Edition: 2-e izd., ispr. i dop.
    Subjects: Sowjetunion; Imperialismus; Nationalbewusstsein; Russlandgedanke; Geschichte; ; Russland; Messianismus; Byzantinismus; Drittes Rom <Motiv>; Geschichte;
    Scope: 479 S., Ill., graph. Darst.
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    Literaturverz. S. 391 - 420

  15. Genre and ideology in the novels of four contemporary Indo-Anglian novelists: R. K. Narayan, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, and Salman Rushdie
    Published: 1992
    Publisher:  UMI, Ann Arbor, Mich.

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    Media type: Dissertation
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    Subjects: Englisch; Roman; Indien; Imperialismus <Motiv>; ; Englisch; Roman; Kulturkonflikt; Indien; Westliche Welt; ; Narayan, R. K.; Roman; ; Desai, Anita; Roman; ; Markandaya, Kamala; Roman; ; Rushdie, Salman; Roman;
    Scope: V, 227 S.
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    Zugl.: Medford, Tufts Univ., phil. Diss., 1986

  16. Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean
    Published: [2015]; © 2015
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

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    ISBN: 9781442619265
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    Subjects: History in literature; Imperialism in literature; Religion in literature; Imperialismus; Literatur
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  17. Out of Place
    Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of Identity
    Author: Baucom, Ian
    Published: 1999
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

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    Subjects: Imperialismus; Kultur; Politische Identität; Literatur; Kolonialismus; Entkolonialisierung; Nationalbewusstsein; Englisch
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    Main description: In a 1968 speech on British immigration policy, Enoch Powell insisted that although a black man may be a British citizen, he can never be an Englishman. This book explains why such a claim was possible to advance and impossible to defend. Ian Baucom reveals how "Englishness" emerged against the institutions and experiences of the British Empire, rendering English culture subject to local determinations and global negotiations. In his view, the Empire was less a place where England exerted control than where it lost command of its own identity. Analyzing imperial crisis zones--including the Indian Mutiny of 1857, the Morant Bay uprising of 1865, the Amritsar massacre of 1919, and the Brixton riots of 1981--Baucom asks if the building of the empire completely refashioned England's narratives of national identity. To answer this question, he draws on a surprising range of sources: Victorian and imperial architectural theory, colonial tourist manuals, lexicographic treatises, domestic and imperial cricket culture, country house fetishism, and the writings of Ruskin, Kipling, Ford Maddox Ford, Forster, Rhys, C.L.R. James, Naipaul, and Rushdie--and representations of urban riot on television, in novels, and in parliamentary sessions. Emphasizing the English preoccupation with place, he discusses some crucial locations of Englishness that replaced the rural sites of Wordsworthian tradition: the Morant Bay courthouse, Bombay's Gothic railway station, the battle grounds of the 1857 uprising in India, colonial cricket fields, and, last but not least, urban riot zones

  18. Imperial Masochism
    British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class
    Author: Kucich, John
    Published: 2006
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

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    Subjects: Soziale Klasse <Motiv>; Englisch; Imperialismus <Motiv>; Masochismus <Motiv>; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (272 S.)
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    Main description: British imperialism's favorite literary narrative might seem to be conquest. But real British conquests also generated a surprising cultural obsession with suffering, sacrifice, defeat, and melancholia. "There was," writes John Kucich, "seemingly a different crucifixion scene marking the historical gateway to each colonial theater." In Imperial Masochism, Kucich reveals the central role masochistic forms of voluntary suffering played in late-nineteenth-century British thinking about imperial politics and class identity. Placing the colonial writers Robert Louis Stevenson, Olive Schreiner, Rudyard Kipling, and Joseph Conrad in their cultural context, Kucich shows how the ideological and psychological dynamics of empire, particularly its reorganization of class identities at the colonial periphery, depended on figurations of masochism. Drawing on recent psychoanalytic theory to define masochism in terms of narcissistic fantasies of omnipotence rather than sexual perversion, the book illuminates how masochism mediates political thought of many different kinds, not simply those that represent the social order as an opposition of mastery and submission, or an eroticized drama of power differentials. Masochism was a powerful psychosocial language that enabled colonial writers to articulate judgments about imperialism and class. The first full-length study of masochism in British colonial fiction, Imperial Masochism puts forth new readings of this literature and shows the continued relevance of psychoanalysis to historicist studies of literature and culture

  19. Kipling & Conrad
    The Colonial Fiction
    Published: [1981]
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

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    ISBN: 9780674428638; 9780674428621
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    Subjects: Political fiction, English / History and criticism; Englisch; Prosa; Englische Literatur; Colonies in literature; Imperialism in literature; Fictie; Kolonialisme; Engels; Political fiction, English; Englisch; Kolonialroman; Imperialismus <Motiv>; Roman
    Other subjects: Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (182p.)
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    In this skillfully written essay on the fiction of imperialism, McClure portrays the colonialist--his nature, aspirations, and frustrations--as perceived by Kipling and Conrad. And he relates these perceptions to the world and experiences of both writers

    In this skillfully written essay on the fiction of imperialism, John McClure portrays the colonialist--his nature, aspirations, and frustrations--as perceived by Kipling and Conrad. And he relates these perceptions to the world and experiences of both writers. In the stories of the 1880s, McClure shows, Kipling focuses with bitter sympathy on "the white man's burden" in India, the strains produced by early exile, ignorance of India, and the interference of liberal bureaucrats in the business of rule. Later works, including The Jungle Book and Kim, present proposals for imperial education intended to eliminate these strains. Conrad also explores the strains of colonial life, but from a perspective antithetical in many respects to Kipling's. In the Lingard novels and Lord Jim he challenges the imperial image of the colonialist as a wise, benign father protecting his savage dependents. The pessimistic assessment of the colonialist's motives and achievements developed in these works finds full expression, McClure suggests, in Heart of Darkness. And in Nostromo Conrad explores the human dimensions of large-scale capitalist intervention in the colonial world,, finding once again no cause to celebrate imperialism. John McClure's interpretation is forceful but ever attuned to the complexities of the texts discussed

  20. Masks of Conquest
    Literary Study and British Rule in India
    Published: [2014]; © 2014
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York, NY

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    Edition: Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition
    Subjects: Englische Literatur; HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia; Erziehung; Geschichte; Politik; Education and state; Education; English literature; English literature; Politics and literature; Politics and literature; Imperialismus; Anglistik; Geschichte; Literatur; Rezeption; Englisch; Literaturwissenschaft
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  21. Reading the global
    troubling perspectives on Britain's empire in Asia
    Published: c2007
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

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    ISBN: 9780231511742
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    Subjects: Capitalism in literature; English literature; Globalization in literature; Imperialism in literature; Globalisierung <Motiv>; Literatur; Südostasien <Motiv>; Englisch; Imperialismus <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Abdullah Munshi (1796-1854); Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924); De Quincey, Thomas (1785-1859); Smith, Adam (1723-1790); Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924); Smith, Adam (1723-1790); De Quincey, Thomas (1785-1859)
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    The global is an instituted perspective, not just an empirical process. Adopted initially by the British in order to make sense of their polyglot territorial empire, the global perspective served to make heterogeneous spaces and nonwhite subjects "legible," and in effect produced the regions it sought merely to describe. The global was the dominant perspective from which the world was produced for representation and control. It also set the terms within which subjectivity and history came to be imagined by colonizers and modern anticolonial nationalists.In this book, Sanjay Krishnan demonstra

  22. Rule of Darkness
    British Literature and Imperialism, 1830–1914
    Published: [2013]; © 1988
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y.

    It is essential reading for anyone concerned with Victorian culture and society and, more generally, with the relationship between Victorian writers and imperialism, 'and between racist ideology and patterns of domination in modern history more

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    It is essential reading for anyone concerned with Victorian culture and society and, more generally, with the relationship between Victorian writers and imperialism, 'and between racist ideology and patterns of domination in modern history

     

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    Subjects: Englisch; Imperialismus <Motiv>; Imperialismus; Literatur
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  23. Reconstructing the World
    Southern Fictions and U.S. Imperialisms, 1898-1976
    Published: [2018]; © 2008
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    "The unending tragedy of Reconstruction," wrote W. E. B. Du Bois, "is the utter inability of the American mind to grasp its... national and worldwide implications." And yet the long shadow of Reconstruction's failure has loomed large in the American... more

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    "The unending tragedy of Reconstruction," wrote W. E. B. Du Bois, "is the utter inability of the American mind to grasp its... national and worldwide implications." And yet the long shadow of Reconstruction's failure has loomed large in the American imagination, serving as a parable of race and democracy both at home and abroad. In Reconstructing the World Harilaos Stecopoulos looks at an array of American writers who, over the course of the twentieth century, used the South as a touchstone for thinking about the nation's global ambitions. Focusing on the lives and writings of Charles Chesnutt, Thomas Dixon, James Weldon Johnson, W. E. B. Du Bois, Carson McCullers, William Faulkner, Richard Wright, and Alice Walker, he shows the ways in which these public intellectuals viewed the U.S. South in international terms and questioned the relationship between domestic inequality and a quest for global power.By examining "big stick" diplomacy, World War II, and the Vietnam War in light of regional domestic concerns, Stecopoulos urges a reassessment of the American Century. Providing new interpretations of literary works both well-known (Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, McCullers's The Member of the Wedding) and marginal (Dixon's The Leopard's Spots, Du Bois's Dark Princess), Stecopoulos argues that the South played a crucial role in mediating between the national and imperial concerns of the United States. That intersection of region and empire, he contends, profoundly influenced how Americans understood not only cultural and political geographies but also issues of race and ethnicity

     

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    ISBN: 9781501729959
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    Subjects: American Studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Regional; American literature; American literature; Imperialism in literature; Literature and history; Regionalism in literature; Prosa; Imperialismus <Motiv>
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  24. Metropolitan Fetish
    African Sculpture and the Imperial French Invention of Primitive Art
    Published: [2019]; © 2019
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    From the 1880s to 1940, French colonial officials, businessmen and soldiers, returning from overseas postings, brought home wooden masks and figures from Africa. This imperial and cultural power-play is the jumping-off point for a story that travels... more

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    From the 1880s to 1940, French colonial officials, businessmen and soldiers, returning from overseas postings, brought home wooden masks and figures from Africa. This imperial and cultural power-play is the jumping-off point for a story that travels from sub-Saharan Africa to Parisian art galleries; from the pages of fashion magazines, through the doors of the Louvre, to world fairs and international auction rooms; into the apartments of avant-garde critics and poets; to the streets of Harlem, and then full-circle back to colonial museums and schools in Dakar, Bamako, and Abidjan. John Warne Monroe guides us on this journey, one that goes far beyond the world of Picasso, Matisse, and Braque, to show how the Modernist avant-garde and the European colonial project influenced each other in profound and unexpected ways. Metropolitan Fetish reveals the complex trajectory of African material culture in the West and provides a map of that passage, tracing the interaction of cultural and imperial power. A broad and far-reaching history of the French reception of African art, it brings to life an era in which the aesthetic category of "primitive art" was invented

     

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    ISBN: 9781501736360
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    Subjects: African Art, Primitive Art, Tribal Art, Modernism, Colonialism, Black Diaspora; African Hist & Diaspora; Anthropology; HISTORY / Europe / France; Art critics; Art; Art, African; Art, Primitive; Modernism (Art); Holzplastik; Primitivismus; Imperialismus; Kunsthandel; Kolonialismus; Naturvolk; Kultgegenstand; Plastik; Avantgarde; Primitivität <Motiv>; Maske; Kunstsammler; Rezeption
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  25. Rule Britannia
    Women, Empire, and Victorian Writing
    Published: [2018]; © 1995
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    Deirdre David here explores women's role in the literature of the colonial and imperial British nation, both as writers and as subjects of representation.David's inquiry juxtaposes the parliamentary speeches of Thomas Macaulay and the private letters... more

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    Deirdre David here explores women's role in the literature of the colonial and imperial British nation, both as writers and as subjects of representation.David's inquiry juxtaposes the parliamentary speeches of Thomas Macaulay and the private letters of Emily Eden, a trial in Calcutta and the missionary literature of Victorian women, writing about thuggee and emigration to Australia. David shows how, in these texts and in novels such as Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son, Wilkie Collins's Moonstone, and H. Rider Haggard's She, the historical and symbolic roles of Victorian women were linked to the British enterprise abroad.Rule Britannia traces this connection from the early nineteenth-century nostalgia for masculine adventure to later patriarchal anxieties about female cultural assertiveness. Missionary, governess, and moral ideal, promoting sacrifice for the good of the empire-such figures come into sharp relief as David discusses debates over English education in India, class conflicts sparked by colonization, and patriarchal responses to fears about feminism and race degeneration. In conclusion, she reveals how Victorian women, as writers and symbols of colonization, served as critics of empire

     

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    ISBN: 9781501723674
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    Subjects: Colonies in literature; English literature; Imperialism in literature; Women and literature; Schriftstellerin; Frauenliteratur; Imperialismus; Literatur; Englisch; Imperialismus <Motiv>; Frau
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