How Long to Read Colonial Fantasies

How Long Does it Take to Read Colonial Fantasies?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 13 minutes to read Colonial Fantasies by Susanne Zantop

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Since Germany became a colonial power relatively late, postcolonial theorists and histories of colonialism have thus far paid little attention to it. Uncovering Germany’s colonial legacy and imagination, Susanne Zantop reveals the significance of colonial fantasies—a kind of colonialism without colonies—in the formation of German national identity. Through readings of historical, anthropological, literary, and popular texts, Zantop explores imaginary colonial encounters of "Germans" with "natives" in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century literature, and shows how these colonial fantasies acted as a rehearsal for actual colonial ventures in Africa, South America, and the Pacific. From as early as the sixteenth century, Germans preoccupied themselves with an imaginary drive for colonial conquest and possession that eventually grew into a collective obsession. Zantop illustrates the gendered character of Germany’s colonial imagination through critical readings of popular novels, plays, and travel literature that imagine sexual conquest and surrender in colonial territory—or love and blissful domestic relations between colonizer and colonized. She looks at scientific articles, philosophical essays, and political pamphlets that helped create a racist colonial discourse and demonstrates that from its earliest manifestations, the German colonial imagination contained ideas about a specifically German national identity, different from, if not superior to, most others.

How long is Colonial Fantasies?

Colonial Fantasies by Susanne Zantop is 306 pages long, and a total of 78,336 words.

This makes it 103% the length of the average book. It also has 96% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Colonial Fantasies Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 8 minutes to read Colonial Fantasies aloud.

What Reading Level is Colonial Fantasies?

Colonial Fantasies is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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