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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

German colonialism, female German authors, German Empire

College

Humanities

Department

German and Russian

Abstract

During the last years of the 19th Century German colonialism was reaching a powerful peak. They were conquering nations around the world, most specifically and most concentrated in Africa. In these lands the German Colonizers positioned themselves to be protectors and cultural benefactors to the inhabitants of the African Colonies. During these years of German colonialism, colonizers spread out into lands across the west-central African Coast to develop them as extensions of the Western European Empire. This created a new, and numerically significant, variant of German culture that was somewhere between the “savagery” of the natives and the “civilization” of the German conquerors. This “median” culture began to produce its own literature thus forming its own culture that was, in turn, sent back to and published in the Fatherland.

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