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Kolonie niemieckie w Afryce w świetle polskiej historiografii

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Pawłowska A.
Forum Politologiczne
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2010
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vol. 10 - Przestrzeń i granice we współczesnej Afryce
263-278
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German politics against colonies has been significantly modified for over two centuries of its history. In the first period, from the end of the 17th to the end of 19th century, its character can be described as economical. To win the market for the products of their industry, German traders set up merchant posts. This situation changed in 19th century, when the other European countries started to set up their colonies in Africa, gaining wider and wider ground and exploiting them without scruples. Germany, to keep abreast, joined the race for the ground and profits. Up to the end of the First World War German officials and soldiers tried to make the local people subservient, treating them like the narrow-minded and primitive, and destroying their culture and tradition. However their oft-cruel practices stayed in the general trends of the attitude European countries against their colonies and aborigines.
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Körper und Temperaturen: Figurationen des kolonialen Begehrens in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur

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Acharya S.
Studia Germanica Posnaniensia
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2015
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issue 36
29-40
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The central argument of this essay is gathered from two historical novels published around same time and revolving around the same historical figure August Engelhardt. High temperature, in particular the tropical heat finds its metaphorical expression in the sun and then the fever as two prototypical colonial phantasies and/or fears and weaves the narrative around the temperature driven intricacies. Marc Buhls Das Paradies des August Engelhardt (2011) and Christian Krachts Imperium (2012) form the primary sources for the discussion within the topic of colonial desire with reference to the temperature as a significant indicator of either appreciation or devaluation underlining the colonial mentality. My paper concentrates on the overlapping sites within German speaking literature from post-colonial perspective. Along with the works of Marc Buhl and Christian Kracht, I cursorily touch upon Ilija Trojanows novel Der Weltensammler (2006), since it deals with the figure of a historical British colonial officer, Richard Francis Burton. The common thread running through all three works is not only the fact that they deal with scurrile biographies from the pages of colonial history in India and Africa, but that they develop the narrative on another common indicator – the Tropes and their Temperatures.
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