Tarzan the German-Eater
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4982014 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matt Cohen (0000-0002-4974-6060, Duke University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 151-174 |
| Publication date | 2006-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative American Studies An International Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1477-5700 • E-ISSN: 1741-2676 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1477570006065258 |
| OpenAlex | W2085782129 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 30 |
This article raises questions about methodology in the study of transnational popular writing by examining the international popularity of Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of the Tarzan novels. Critical anti-imperialist analyses have found in Burroughs's fiction a dangerous metaphorics supporting imperialistic US foreign policies. In Weimar Germany, resistance to the Tarzan novels emerged that all but eliminated the market for these otherwise internationally popular fictions. Yet the German reaction shows how the idea of 'empire', embodied in tropes of race and gender, could continue to function in debates about international popular literature. At the same time, Burroughs was forced to adapt to international markets by tempering his imperialistic fictions. Burroughs's work after the controversy shows a shift in the depiction of national 'others', yet it had little radical potential because Burroughs had turned his imperial gaze inward, towards the internally colonized: Native Americans
Ancient history · Art · Art history · Depiction · Empire · German · Literature · Political science · Popularity · American Political and Social Dynamics · Comics and Graphic Narratives · History · Law · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis
Contested culture
The poetics of imperialism
The Weimar Republic
The black Atlantic
Reading the Romance
Modernity at large
Fear of a queer planet
The white man's Indian
The Limits of Reason
Culture, Power, Place
Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford
The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture
National Manhood
The Poetics of Imperialism
Tarzan under Attack
Imagined communities
Retracing The Lost Steps
Poor Eliza
Red Matters
Going Native
Manliness and Civilization
Culture and Imperialism
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
On Translation in a Global Market
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,05 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2006 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |