Distant kinship : Joseph Conrad's "Heart of darkness" in German literature: gender, class, race, and trauma / Matthias N. Lorenz.
Lorenz, Matthias N., 1973- author.
2022
PR6005.O4
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Title Distant kinship : Joseph Conrad's "Heart of darkness" in German literature: gender, class, race, and trauma / Matthias N. Lorenz.
Author Lorenz, Matthias N., 1973- author.
ISBN 9783476058782 (electronic bk.)
3476058786 (electronic bk.)
9783476058775 (print)
3476058778
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05878-2
Published Berlin, Germany : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 509 pages) : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-476-05878-2 doi
Call Number PR6005.O4
Dewey Decimal Classification 823/.912
Summary This study of Joseph Conrad's influential work "Heart of Darkness" presents for the first time the German-language reception of this reference text in the debate on postcolonialism. The spectrum ranges from Conrad's contemporaries (like Kafka) to many canonical authors of the 20th century (including Thomas Mann, Ernst Jünger, Christa Wolf) to the most recent names in literature (i.e. Christian Kracht and Lukas Bärfuss). Beyond the readings of their works, the study contributes to the study of cultural transfers as well as to Conrad philology, and it expands the theory of intertextuality with parameters that capture the complex factor of power in postcolonial relations. This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. The author (with the friendly support of Joe Kroll) has subsequently revised the text further in an endeavour to refine the work stylistically. "Lorenz's meticulous analyses are immensely stimulating and productive." (Journal of European Studies) Matthias N. Lorenz is Professor of German and Comparative literature at Leibniz Universität Hannover (Germany) and Extraordinary Professor at Stellenbosch University (South Africa). He led two Swiss National Science Foundation projects on ruptures and continuities in Group 47 and on the phenomenon of disruption in the work of Christian Kracht and he is part of a Volkswagen Foundation research group on doing memory of right-wing violence.
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I. The white spot
II. Marlow
III. Conrad
IV. What texts do to texts
V. "Read, please."
VI. The German-language corpus
VII "The End"
Bibliography
Index of persons.

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