"I have gotten used to the whites, but I tremble before the blacks!" : fashioning colonial subjectivities in "The Brave Rabbit in Africa"
- The ways in which Self and Other are represented in fiction play a significant role in the formation of racial and other stereotypes in any culture. This article is a reading of the children's book "The Brave Rabbit in Africa" (1931) by Slovak modernist author Jozef Cíger-Hronský. It attempts to point out and analyse the ways in which racial and national identities are constructed in the written text of the book. Arguably, the story deploys colonialist motifs typical of Western literature in order to appraise the modern, civilized identity of the young Slovak nation.
| Author: | Kristína Kállay |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-710521 |
| URL: | https://brill.com/downloadpdf/book/9789004513150/BP000022.pdf |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004513150_013 |
| ISBN: | 978-90-04-51315-0 |
| ISBN: | 978-90-04-45012-7 |
| ISSN: | 0927-4065 |
| Parent Title (English): | New perspectives on imagology / edited by Katharina Edtstadler, Sandra Folie and Gianna Zocco ; Studia Imagologica ; 30 |
| Publisher: | Brill |
| Place of publication: | Leiden ; Boston |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2024/04/08 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2022 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2024/04/08 |
| Tag: | Children's literature Hronský, Jozef Cíger: Smelý zajko v Afrike |
| GND Keyword: | Hronský, Jozef Cíger; Kinderliteratur; Afrikabild; Kolonialliteratur |
| Page Number: | 19 |
| First Page: | 242 |
| Last Page: | 256 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
| 8 Literatur / 89 Andere Literaturen / 891 Ostindoeuropäische, keltische Literaturen / 891.8 Slawische Literatur | |
| Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
| CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin | |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY-NC - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell 4.0 International |
