Gerechtigkeit und Loyalität, Ethik und Politik

Wittkowski, Wolfgang

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“…Whilst Coango Hoango's impulse for rebellion is ideologically grounded in the inequities of the slave trade, the revolutionary appeal of freedom or emancipation is equally not invokedand indeed it is only invoked negatively in the text. 19 There are moments where the narrative voice wavers, such as where hyperbole threatens to tip into irony in the depiction of Villeneuve's paternalistic kindliness ('krönte seine Wohltaten noch damit'). The narrator's reductive bias in the sketch of Congo Hoango reveals even at the novella's opening the problem of the contingency of knowledge, and how knowledge is fundamentally insecure.…”

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Race and Colonialism around 1800: Herder, Fischer, Kleist

Raisbeck

2022

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Herder's 'Neger-Idyllen', Kleist's Die Verlobung in St. Domingo, and Caroline Auguste Fischer's William der Neger offer an exploration of the intersection between race and colonialism in the Atlantic World and in Europe around 1800. Teaching students to read depictions of race, violence, and struggles for emancipation does not only engage with the fraught legacies of the Enlightenment, but, practically speaking, is also an exercise in suspicious reading. Herder's anti-imperialist and anti-slavery poems end with an uneasy negotiation of paternalism. Kleist's novella provides a racially biased narrator, who limits access to the thought processes of non-white characters. Fischer's short story moves towards upholding an ideal of emancipation, but recoils from its corollary of revolutionary violence, and crafts two images of its protagonist that cannot be reconciled: one of internalized selfhatred, based on racial identity, the other, one of a Christ-like saviour for oppressed peoples.

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