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Transnational encounters in Algeria : para-colonial writing in the travelogues of German soldiers in colonial Algiers, 1830–1890
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Hodkinson, James R. (2017) Transnational encounters in Algeria : para-colonial writing in the travelogues of German soldiers in colonial Algiers, 1830–1890. Studies in Travel Writing, 21 (3). pp. 262-277. doi:10.1080/13645145.2017.1352133
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2017.1352133
Abstract
This essay analyses travel writing by German-speaking soldiers serving in the French military in nineteenth-century colonial Algiers. It suggests that their position – that of Europeans associated with and employed by the French colonial powers without necessarily being culturally or politically aligned with the colonial project – can be described as “para-colonial”. That perspective allowed soldiers writing in German both to participate in and endorse, though also to critique, the process of colonisation, albeit in ambivalent terms. The texts do not describe binary, German–Algerian relationships, but rather “triangular” intercultural encounters, whereby the soldiers’ shifting attitudes to the French influence their feelings and writing about local people and culture, and vice versa. Examining the representations of the “first encounter” each soldier has with the new continent, the triangular intercultural relationship, and the written treatment of urban and rural spaces, the discussion contrasts two travelogues produced in 1840 and 1881, respectively, considering how the absence and, later, the advent of a German colonial Empire left its mark on German writing about the colonisation of Algiers.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DT Africa J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) P Language and Literature > PT Germanic literature |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > German Studies Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Algeria -- Social life and customs -- 19th century, Algeria -- History -- 19th century, Soldiers -- Algeria, German -- Algeria -- Social life and customs -- 19th century, France -- Colonies -- Algeria, Travel writing -- Algeria, Travelers' writings, German -- Algeria | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Studies in Travel Writing | ||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1364-5145 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 6 September 2017 | ||||||
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 12 March 2019 | ||||||
| Volume: | 21 | ||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 262-277 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/13645145.2017.1352133 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Publisher Statement: | “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Studies in Travel Writing on 06/09/2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13645145.2017.1352133” | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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