Bøker av Todd Kontje

Examines the life and work of writer and political activist Georg Forster (1754-1794), a participant in Captain Cook's second voyage and one of the leading figures in the Mainz Republic.

Explores ways in which writers from late antiquity to the present have imagined communities before and beyond the nation-state. It takes as its point of departure challenges to the discrete nation-state posed by globalization, migration, and European integration today, but then circles back to the beginnings of European history after the fall of the Roman Empire.

Building on Edward Said's 'Orientalism', which defined Orientalism as a form of Western knowledge directly linked to imperial power, Todd Kontje offers a more nuanced version as seen through the lens of German literature of the last 1500 years.

Provides a comprehensive reevaluation of Thomas Mann as the representative German author of the Age of Empire, placing Mann's comments about Jews and the Jewish characters in his fiction in the larger context of his attentiveness to racial difference, both in the world at large and in himself.