Imagining "Indianer": Karl May's Winnetou and Germans' Enduring Fantasies about Native Americans
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This thesis examines German stereotypes and feelings of affinity for Native Americans in the New Imperial period by looking to the Winnetou trilogy, a massively popular series of novels produced by Karl May (1842–1912). By evaluating a history of German fantasies about Native Americans and offering literary analysis of May's text, I theorize that as colonial ventures became increasingly possible for the unified German state, Germans' "noble Indianer" stereotypes could also act as a model for idealized conqueror-conquered relations.
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April 15, 2019
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119 pages
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eng
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