Colonial space : spatiality in the discourse of German South West Africa 1884-1915

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Colonial space : spatiality in the discourse of German South West Africa 1884-1915

John Noyes

(Studies in anthropology and history, v. 4)

Harwood Academic Publishers, c1992

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [290]-305) and indexes

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First Published in 1992. This book is about space of a colony and how it was produced. It began as a study of the literature of the German colony of South-West Africa between the years 1884 and 1915. The author's aim is to demonstrate the active role which literature had played in structuring the experience of the colony. If it could be shown that literature not only describes, but also helps to structure the forms of experience, then it would follow that it also plays an important role in structuring the experience of colonization, and hence the form of the colony itself. From the outset, therefore, the study was concerned with a number of issues centering around colonization, representation, experience, and social form, where spatiality is the concept which allows us to understand how these various aspects of colonialism interrelate.

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INTRODUCTION: Confronting the spatiality of colonial discourse PART ONE Spatiality: Signification, Subjectivity, Society ONE The struggle for the point: the metaphysical TWO The production of space PART TWO Colonial Space ONE Boundaries TWO Looking THREE Writing

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