List, Täuschung, Ambivalenz. Postkoloniale Strategien in Heinrich von Kleists Die Hermannsschlacht

• Authors: Patrice Djoufack

Title variants

EN

Ruse, Feint and Ambivalence. Postcolonial Strategies in Heinrich Kleist’s The Battle of the Teutoburger Forest

PL

List, Täuschung, Ambivalenz. Postkoloniale Strategien in Heinrich von Kleists Die Hermannsschlacht

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

EN

Kleist’s hero Hermann/Arminius has been considered a ‚terrorist‘, a decadent figure and a liar who betrays the confidence of his Roman friends and murders them. He also is at war with his own family and countrymen he is supposed to defend. In this interpretation, Hermann’s methods have been mistakenly presumed to be his aim. Adopting a postcolonial approach, this paper analyzes ruse and feint as ambivalent strategies and aesthetic categories Kleist uses to put on stage the tactics of colonial discourse and techniques of anticolonial struggle as well.

PL

Podstęp, oszustwo, ambiwalencja. Strategie poskolonialne w Die Hermannschlacht Heinricha von Kleista Kleist’s hero Hermann/Arminius has been considered a ‚terrorist‘, a decadent figure and a liar who betrays the confidence of his Roman friends and murders them. He also is at war with his own family and countrymen he is supposed to defend. In this interpretation, Hermann’s methods have been mistakenly presumed to be his aim. Adopting a postcolonial approach, this paper analyzes ruse and feint as ambivalent strategies and aesthetic categories Kleist uses to put on stage the tactics of colonial discourse and techniques of anticolonial struggle as well.

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego
• Journal: Studia Germanica Gedanensia
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 30
• Pages: 162-172

Dates

published

2014-04-24

Contributors

author

Patrice Djoufack