Transculturality and German discourse in the age of European colonialism

267 Pages·2017·2.857 MB·English

by  Campe, Joachim Heinrich;Chamisso, Adelbert von;Forster, Georg;Herder, Johann Gottfried von;Kant, Immanuel;Kotzebue, August von;Zhang, Chunjie

Transculturality and
German Discourse
in the Age of
European Colonialism

Transculturality and
German Discourse
in the Age of
European Colonialism
Chunjie Zhang
northwestern university press
evanston, illinois
Northwestern University Press
www .nupress .northwestern .edu
Copyright © 2017 by Northwestern University Press.
Published 2017. All rights reserved.
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Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Names: Zhang, Chunjie, author.
Title: Transculturality and German discourse in the age of European colonialism /
Chunjie Zhang.
Description: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2017. | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017000246 | ISBN 9780810134782 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN
9780810134775 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780810134799 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: German literature—18th century—History and criticism. |
German literature—19th century—History and criticism. | Travelers’ writings,
German—History and criticism. | Oceania—In literature. | Forster, Georg,
1754–1794—Criticism and interpretation. | Chamisso, Adelbert von, 1781–
1838—Criticism and interpretation. | Campe, Joachim Heinrich, 1746–1818—
Criticism and interpretation. | Kotzebue, August von, 1761–1819—Criticism
and interpretation. | Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744–1803—Criticism and
interpretation. | Kant, Immanuel, 1724–1804.
Classification: LCC PT289 .Z43 2017 | DDC 830.93209033—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017000246
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Contents
List of Figures ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction
Defining Transculturality; or, Reading from the Other Side 3
Chapter 1
Georg Forster in Oceania: Enlightenment, Sentiment,
and the Intrusion of the South Seas 21
Chapter 2
Adelbert von Chamisso’s Friendship: Genre, Kadu, and Relations 43
Chapter 3
Krusoe Robinson’s Adventure: Technology of the Self and Double
Consciousness in Joachim Heinrich Campe’s Robinson der Jüngere 65
Chapter 4
The New World, Femininity, and Refusal of Tragedy in
August von Kotzebue’s Melodramas 87
Chapter 5
Johann Gottfried Herder: Historicism, Cultural Relativism,
and the Iroquois Perpetual Peace 119
Chapter 6
Immanuel Kant’s Physische Geographie: Authorship and the
Geographical Order of Things 161
Epilogue 177
Notes 181
Works Cited 229
Index 247

Figures
Figure 1. John Francis Rigaud, Johann Reinhold Forster and
His Son Georg Forster on Tahiti (1780) 22
Figure 2. Image of Kadu, from Louis Choris, Voyage pittoresque
autour du monde . . . 44
Figure 3. The boat Oa, from Louis Choris, Voyage pittoresque
autour du monde . . . 57
Figure 4. Pare Watene, 1878 178
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