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Prairie promises, lone star limits : depictions of Texas in German travelogues from 1830-1860
(2018)
Written as a valediction for a friend bound to emigrate to Texas, August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben's poems 'Der Stern von Texas' and 'Ein Guadelupelied', both published in the 1846 collection 'Texanische Lieder', poignantly express the popular sentiment of enthusiasm for migration to Texas that had spread widely across German-speaking lands in the mid-1840s. The two songs further capture the two major factors that inspired at least 20,000 Germans to exchange the familiarity of their homes for an unknown future in what was then a remote region in the North American West during the Vor- and Nachmärz eras: the dream of economic opportunities enabling emigrants to escape from poverty and the highly stratified German society, on the one hand, and the desire for civil liberties and political agency that could not be attained in the repressive political climate in their native lands, on the other. Moreover, the two songs exemplify the large body of written texts from the period that articulated the German vision of Texas as a specific version of the North American experience While Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798-1874) never set foot on Texan soil, many texts from this corpus of writing were travelogues based on their writers' actual journeys to and through Texas. In the following, I will analyze three such accounts by German visitors and settlers from the Vor- and Nachmärz periods.
This article focuses the expeditions of Maximilian Prinz Wied zu Neuwied and Johann Moritz Rugendas to Brazil. It discusses initially basic aspects of perception from the early colonial period up to the 19th century. It will then analyze the pictorial characterization of Brazil by both travelers and the reception of their work in Europe