ISBN:
9783826043208
Language:
German
Pages:
241 S.
,
Ill., graph. Darst.
,
235 mm x 155 mm
Series Statement:
Studien zur Kulturpoetik 14
Series Statement:
Studien zur Kulturpoetik
Dissertation note:
Zugl.: Amsterdam, Univ., Diss., 2009
DDC:
610
Keywords:
Medicine in literature
;
Diseases in literature
;
Hygiene in literature
;
Colonies in literature
;
German literature History and criticism 19th century
;
German literature History and criticism 20th century
;
German literature 19th century
;
History and criticism
;
German literature 20th century
;
History and criticism
;
Diseases in literature
;
Hygiene in literature
;
Tropics In literature
;
Colonialism
;
Germany
;
Medicine in literature
;
Tropical medicine
;
Tropics In literature
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Deutsch
;
Literatur
;
Tropen
;
Kolonialismus
;
Pathographie
;
Geschichte 1885-1910
Abstract:
"This study analyses the imagination of the tropics as a space of disease, madness and infection in German colonial culture around 1900. It introduces the notion of the dispositive of tropical medicine (tropenmedizinische Dispositiv) in order to describe the construction of disease entities such as Tropenkoller (tropical frenzy), tropical neurasthenia and tropical fever as the result of interdiscursive exchanges between medicine, psychiatry, literature and various other discourses. The case studies include detailed analyses of the poetics of Tropenfieber in works by Robert Koch and Thomas Mann, the semantics and materialities of tropical neurasthenia and vitalist constructions of the tropics in the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche and in expressionist poetry. Special attention is given to the discursive nexus of malaria, race and immunity in German tropical hygiene at the beginning of the 20th century. Methodologically, the study combines David Arnold's notion of 'tropicality' with insights from postcolonial studies and recent approaches to the poetics of knowledge."--Author's page, University of Amsterdam web site
Note:
Literaturverz. S. 219 - 240
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