The Discourse of British and German Colonialism (eBook, PDF)

Convergence and Competition
Redaktion: Rash, Felicity; Horan, Geraldine

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume compares and contrasts British and German colonialist discourses from a variety of angles: philosophical, political, social, economic, legal, and discourse-linguistic. The title will prove invaluable for students and researchers working on British colonial history, German colonial history and postcolonial studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429821035
• Artikelnr.: 59806096

Autorenporträt

Felicity Rash is Professor of German Linguistics at Queen Mary, University of London. Her major publications include: The Language of Violence: Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf (2006); German Images of the Self and the Other in German Nationalist, Colonialist and Anti-Semitic Discourse 1871-1918 (2012); and The Strategies of German Imperialist Discourse: The Colonial Idea and Africa, 1848-1948 (2016). Geraldine Horan is Senior Lecturer in German Language at University College London. Her research interests lie in feminist linguistics, discourse analysis, and political discourse. She is co-editor of Doing Politics: Discursivity, Performativity and Mediation in Political Discourse (2018, with Michael Kranert).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives;

1. Cutting up the World Pie and What Happened Next;

2. Neither Colonies nor Colonialism? The Early Modern Semantics of European Expansion in German Political Economics (1700-1800);

3. Colonialism and Diaspora in Imperial Germany;

4. How are British and German Colonizers Positioned in the Digital Corpus?;

Part II: The "Scramble" for Africa;

5. Metaphors of Darkness and Light in British and German Travel and Missionary Discourse;

6. German Imperialist Images of the Other: a Sonderweg? Discursive Representations of the Imperial Self in Wilhelmine Germany (1884-1919);

7. The Continuities of Colonial Land Dispossessions under German and South Africa Rule;

8. "An Inclination towards a Policy of Extermination"? German and British Discourse on Colonial Wars during High Imperialism;

9. German and British Subject Settler Narratives from German East Africa;

10. Stereotypical Labelling of the Moroccan Goumiers in German Colonialist Discourse;

Part III: The "Scramble" for the Wider World;

11. Notes from the Margins: the Discursive Construction of the Self and Other in the German Ostmark and Ireland, Discourses of Internal Colonialism and Gender in the Works of Käthe Schirmacher and Maud Gonne;

12. Sutapa Dutta: Schooling of the Tribal Peoples of the Chota Nagpur Region of India: Contested Claims by German Missionaries and British Colonialists, 1830-1870;

13. Postcolonial Discourse Analysis: the Linguistic Fall-out from Imperial Germany's Colonialist Past in China;

14. British and German Scientific Exploration in the Asian-Pacific Region as an Alternative Form of Colonization