Issues of Language and Communication: Kleist's "Die Verlobung in St. Domingo"

Burwick, Roswitha

doi:10.2307/407590

The German Quarterly

1992

DOI: 10.2307/407590

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Issues of Language and Communication: Kleist's "Die Verlobung in St. Domingo"

Roswitha Burwick¹

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“…As Roswitha Burwick has rightly noted: 'Kleist's story becomes an intricate and complex texture of narrative structures packed with semantic duplicity, inaccuracies in description, and ambiguity of […] narrator, and characters.' 20 Indeed, the paternalism of Villeneuve is qualified by the subsequent account of the 'grausame Strafe' meted out on Babekan that leaves her suffering from consumption. 21 These inconsistencies encourage a degree of reading against and between the narrator's suggestions, although Kleist does not allow the reader insights into further justifications for the rebellion (both personal and political).…”

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Race and Colonialism around 1800: Herder, Fischer, Kleist

Raisbeck

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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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Race and Colonialism around 1800: Herder, Fischer, Kleist

Raisbeck

2022

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“…65, No. 3/4, 1992-1992: Five Centuries of German-American Interrelations (Summer -Autumn, 1992), pp. 318-327: http://www.jstor.org/stable/407590.…”

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A Injustiça Na Perspectiva Literária: O Noivado De Santo Domingo De Heinrich Von Kleist

Rosenfield

2012

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Este artigo apresenta uma análise da última novela de Kleist, O Noivado em Santo Domingo, que elabora poeticamente as inconsistências imaginárias de um herói confrontado com diversas formas de injustiça (colonial, racial e humana). - Em vez de concentrar a atenção sobre o enredo passional, os problemas relacionados com diferenças culturais, étnicas, de gênero, desfocaremos o interesse para o primeiro terço da narrativa, que prepara a eclosão da paixão entre o europeu Gustav e a mestiça Toni. Iluminaremos alguns aspectos (históricos e biográficos) da época em que Kleist escreveu esta obra (inspirado pelos acontecimentos políticos em Santo Domingo, na França e na Alemanha da primeira década do século 19), sublinhando a maestria com que Kleist dramatiza sentimentos e pensamentos extremamente complexos.

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Face Value: Kleist’sDie Verlobung in St. Domingo

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2010

European Romantic Review

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Issues of Language and Communication: Kleist's "Die Verlobung in St. Domingo"

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Race and Colonialism around 1800: Herder, Fischer, Kleist

Race and Colonialism around 1800: Herder, Fischer, Kleist

A Injustiça Na Perspectiva Literária: O Noivado De Santo Domingo De Heinrich Von Kleist

Face Value: Kleist’sDie Verlobung in St. Domingo

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