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Beyond Exceptionalism
While the economic involvement of early modern Germany in slavery and the slave trade is increasingly receiving attention, the direct participation of Germans in human trafficking remains a blind spot in historiography. This edited volume focuses on practices of enslavement taking place within German territories in the early modern period as well as on the people of African, Asian, and Native American descent caught up in them.
Between Encyclopedia and Chorography
During the early modern period, regional specified compendia – which combine information on local moral and natural history, towns and fortifications with historiography, antiquarianism, images series or maps – gain a new agency in the production of knowledge. Via literary and aesthetic practices, the compilations construct a display of regional specified knowledge. In some cases this display of regional knowledge is presented as a display of a local cultural identity and is linked to early modern practices of comparing and classifying civilizations. At the core of the publication are compendia on the Americas which research has described as chorographies, encyclopeadias or – more recently – 'cultural encyclopaedias'. Studies on Asian and European encyclopeadias, universal histories and chorographies help to contextualize the American examples in the broader field of an early modern and transcultural knowledge production, which inherits and modifies the ancient and medieval tradition.
Hating Empire Properly
Discusses arguments made against empire and colonialism in the eighteenth century through works by Denis Diderot and Edmund Burke. Explores the limits and failures of their arguments by emphasizing what they wrote on the two indies, especially India and Haiti.
Crossroads of Colonial Cultures
The study examines cultural effects of various colonial systems of government in the Spanish- and French-speaking Caribbean in a little investigated period of transition: from the French Revolution to the abolition of slavery in Cuba (1789–1886). The comparison of cultural transfer processes by means of literary production from and about the Caribbean, embedded in a broader context of the circulation of culture and knowledge deciphers the different transculturations of European discourses in the colonies as well as the repercussions of these transculturations on the motherland’s ideas of the colonial other: The loss of a culturally binding centre in the case of the Spanish colonies – i...
Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas
In recent years scholars have turned their attention to the rich experience of the Jesuits in France and Spain’s American colonies. That attention has brought a flow of new editions and translations of Jesuit accounts of the Americas; it is now time for a study that examines the full range of that work in a comparative perspective. Jesuit Accounts of the Colonial Americas offers the first comprehensive examination of such writings and the role they played in solidifying images of the Americas. The collection also provides a much-needed re-examination of the work of the Jesuits in relation to Enlightenment ideals and the modern social sciences and humanities – two systems of thought that have in the past appeared radically opposed, but which are brought together here under the rubric of modern ethnographic knowledge. Linking Jesuit texts, the rhetorical tradition, and the newly emerging anthropology of the Enlightenment, this collection traverses the vast expanses of Old and New World France and Spain in fascinating new ways.
Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations, 1680–1830
With a focus on the economic, social, and political impetus for producing monuments to knowledge, this volume recognizes the encyclopedic compilation as the quintessential tool of enlightenment knowledge transfer.
Print Markets and Political Dissent
Moving book history in a new direction, this study examines publishers as brokers of Central Europe's political public sphere. They created international print markets, translated new texts, launched new journals, supported outspoken authors, and experimented with popular formats. Most of all, they contested censorship with finesse and resolve, thereby undermining the aim of Prussia and Austria to criminalize democratic thought. By packaging dissent through popular media, publishers cultivated broad readerships, promoted political literacy, and refashioned citizenship ideals. As political actors, intellectual midwives, and cultural mediators, publishers speak to a broad range of scholarly in...
Raum - Bewegung - Passage
Ansätze der postcolonial studies, vor allem die topologischen Konzepte zur Analyse des Schreibens zwischen verschiedenen geographischen Sphären werden immer wichtiger für die Analyse französischsprachiger Literaturen und Filme. Auch in literarischen Texten selbst kommt die Reflexion räumlicher Bewegungen im Zeitalter von Migration und Globalisierung zum Ausdruck - das Schreiben auf der Grenze und in Bewegung spielt eine immer größere Rolle. Der Band fokussiert eine Bandbreite an Texten von der Kolonialzeit des 19. Jahrhunderts aus der Karibik und des Orientalismus, über die Zwanziger Jahre bis hin zu postkolonialen Literaturen und Filmen des 20. und 21. Jahrhundert aus Frankreich und Subsahara-Afrika, Kanada und der Karibik. Im Zentrum steht die Relevanz der kulturwissenschaftlichen Kategorie Raum - in den Blick gelangt zugleich der Raum im Text und der Text als Raum. Der Band verbindet erstmals den spatial turn mit Ansätzen der postcolonial studies und erprobt in exemplarischen Analysen ihren methodischen Wert für die Frankoromanistik.
Interfaces franco-allemandes dans la culture populaire et les médias. Deutsch-französische Schnittstellen in Populärkultur und Medien
Massenmedien greifen als „nicht intentionale Mittler“ häufig populäre Formen von Kultur auf und erschließen so neue Kontexte und Räume für den deutsch-französischen Wissens- und Kulturtransfer. Die Beiträge in diesem Band beleuchten diese interkulturellen Transfer- und Fremdwahrnehmungsprozesse in Populärkultur und Medien.
