Presentation
Little Germans on the Prairie: Colonial Thought and German Settlement of the United States in Wilhelmine Youth Literature
Coalition of Women in German Annual Conference
(2011)
Abstract
In German youth literature set on the North American frontier, authors construct a claim to a German America. In these texts Germans are presented as most worthy citizens and the ideal colonizers: moral and tolerant, racially superior, disinterested, establishing a colonial claim to the Americas, in particular to the North American West.
Keywords
- German Literature,
- Children's and Youth Literature,
- German-American Studies,
- Representations of Native Americans in German Literature,
- Amerikaromane,
- German Colonialism
Disciplines
Publication Date
October, 2011
Citation Information
Maureen O. Gallagher. "Little Germans on the Prairie: Colonial Thought and German Settlement of the United States in Wilhelmine Youth Literature" Coalition of Women in German Annual Conference (2011) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/mogallagher/1/