03984oam 2200793 a 450 991096745480332120161228113106.0978128365851512836585189780472028580047202858810.3998/mpub.3245954(CKB)3340000000001927(OCoLC)813540629(CaPaEBR)ebrary10612418(SSID)ssj0000759475(PQKBManifestationID)11432511(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000759475(PQKBWorkID)10783173(PQKB)10161918(MiAaPQ)EBC3415096(MdBmJHUP)muse18561(MiU)10.3998/mpub.3245954(Au-PeEL)EBL3415096(CaPaEBR)ebr10612418(CaONFJC)MIL397101(OCoLC)859673264(BIP)46646280(BIP)39364774(EXLCZ)99334000000000192720120416d2012 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrGermany's wild east constructing Poland as colonial space /Kristin KoppAnn Arbor :University of Michigan Press,c2012.1 online resource (270 p.) Social history, popular culture, and politics in GermanyBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780472118441 0472118447 Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-250) and index.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.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.Social history, popular culture, and politics in GermanyGerman literature19th centuryHistory and criticismGerman literature20th centuryHistory and criticismColonies in literatureGermansPolandHistoryGermanyRelationsPolandPolandRelationsGermanyGermanyTerritorial expansionPhilosophyGermanyIntellectual life19th centuryGermanyIntellectual life20th centuryGerman literatureHistory and criticism.German literatureHistory and criticismColonies in literature.GermansHistory.303.48/243043809034Kopp Kristin Leigh1868695Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan)MiUMiUBOOK9910967454803321Germany's wild east4476674UNINA