Zilcosky John Zilcosky

Uncanny Encounters (eBook, PDF)

Literature, Psychoanalysis, and the End of Alterity

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research AwardRecipient, 2022 Guggenheim FellowshipAround 1900, when the last blank spaces on their maps were filled, Europeans traveled to far-flung places hoping to find the spectacularly foreign. They discovered instead what Freud called, several years later, the uncannily familiar: disturbing reflections of themselves-either actual Europeans or Westernized natives. This experience was most extreme for German travelers, who arrived in the contact zones late, on the heels of other European colonialists, and it resulted not in understanding or tolerance but in an increased propensity for violence and destruction. The quest for a "e;virginal,"e; exotic existence proved to be ruined at its source, mirroring back to the travelers demonic parodies of their own worst aspects. In this strikingly original book, John Zilcosky demonstrates how these popular "e;uncanny"e; encounters influenced Freud's-and the literary modernists'-use of the term, and how these encounters remain at the heart of our cross-cultural anxieties today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780810132115
• Artikelnr.: 72455434

Autorenporträt

JOHN ZILCOSKY is a professor of German and comparative literature at the University of Toronto. His previous publications include Kafka's Travels: Exoticism, Colonialism, and the Traffic of Writing (2003), winner of the MLA's 2004 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize, and Writing Travel: The Poetics and Politics of the Modern Journey (2008).