Kulturschock in Brasilien : eine Studie zur Interkulturalität in Ina von Binzers Briefroman 'Leid und Freud einer Erzieherin in Brasilien' (1887)
- In the years around 1880 the concepts of modern culture studies were still largely unknown. The term 'cross-culture experience' that is now part of the standard vocabulary of today's human sciences had not yet been invented. And yet the heyday of colonialism saw the publication of numerous texts that analysed the experience of the strange and unfamiliar with remarkable sensitivity. The German governess Ina von Binzer was twenty-four when she left for a two-year visit to Brazil, where she worked with the family of a wealthy coffee plantation owner. On her return to Germany she turned her diary jottings into a fictionalised epistolary novel, describing in great detail the domestic and social reality of the Segundo Império, while also depicting the way in which the daily experience of otherness gradually increased in intensity until it became a very real feeling of culture shock. On the strength of its conscious struggle with the sense of being different and alien, Binzer's work may be characterised as a 'culture study avant la lettre'.
Author: | Christoph Schamm |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-250440 |
URL: | http://seer.ufrgs.br/contingentia/article/view/4156 |
ISSN: | 1980-7589 |
Parent Title (Portuguese): | Contingentia : Zeitschrift der Deutschen Abteilung in Zusammenarbeit mit der Post-Graduierung im Bereich Literatur- und Sprachwissenschaft der Bundesuniversität Porto Alegre (UFRGS) |
Publisher: | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Instituto de Letras |
Place of publication: | Porto Alegre |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | German |
Year of first Publication: | 2008 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2012/06/26 |
Tag: | Binzer, Ina von / Leid und Freud einer Erzieherin in Brasilien |
GND Keyword: | Interkulturalität; Briefroman |
Volume: | 3 |
Issue: | 1 |
Page Number: | 25 |
First Page: | 26 |
Last Page: | 50 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 357415353 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 83 Deutsche und verwandte Literaturen / 830 Literaturen germanischer Sprachen; Deutsche Literatur |
Sammlungen: | Germanistik / GiNDok |
BDSL-Klassifikation: | 16.00.00 Jahrhundertwende (1880-1914) / BDSL-Klassifikation: 16.00.00 Jahrhundertwende (1880-1914) > 16.15.00 Zu einzelnen Autoren |
Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | Contingentia / Contingentia : Vol. 3, 2008 / Contingentia : Vol. 3 No. 1, 2008 |
: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-257908 |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |