TY - GEN
T1 - Chunjie Zhang, Transculturality and the German Discourse in the Age of European Colonialism, Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois, 2017
T2 - Book review
AU - Winter, Christine
PY - 2019/2/1
Y1 - 2019/2/1
N2 - This mature and well-researched book moves from the Pacific to Germany and traces encounters, meetings, and engagement of Germans and Pacific Islanders by analyzing the resulting entangled texts: travel writing, stage plays, and philosophical works. It asks how transculturality shaped discourses, culture, and thought in an evolving Germany. Chunjie Zhang thoroughly contextualizes and theorizes her approach. She analyzes not the making of German imperialism and its impact on a colonized world, but rather the impact of the Pacific on German culture, German nation building, and German ideas about itself and a wider world. She is, as the introduction states, "reading from the other side" (3).
AB - This mature and well-researched book moves from the Pacific to Germany and traces encounters, meetings, and engagement of Germans and Pacific Islanders by analyzing the resulting entangled texts: travel writing, stage plays, and philosophical works. It asks how transculturality shaped discourses, culture, and thought in an evolving Germany. Chunjie Zhang thoroughly contextualizes and theorizes her approach. She analyzes not the making of German imperialism and its impact on a colonized world, but rather the impact of the Pacific on German culture, German nation building, and German ideas about itself and a wider world. She is, as the introduction states, "reading from the other side" (3).
U2 - 10.1353/gsr.2019.0011
DO - 10.1353/gsr.2019.0011
M3 - Other contribution
T3 - German Studies Review
PB - John Hopkins University Press
ER -