"Wouldn't It Be Smarter to Let the Malay Colonize Europe?": Postcolonial Critique, Antiglobalism, and Racism in the Travel Books of the Bohemian- German Author Richard Katz (1888–1968)
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The travel books of the Bohemian-German author Richard Katz (1888–1968) were once among the most popular publications in German literature but have since been forgotten. This essay intends to reread, from a postcolonial perspective, Katz’s work from the interwar period. It focuses on his book about the Dutch East Indies, today’s Indonesia, Heitere Tage mit braunen Menschen (1930), in order to explain how and why the early form of postcolonial and antiglobalist critique we find in Katz’s writings could coexist with other ideas that reiterated nineteenth-century colonialist and racist conceptions about the indigenous Other and people of mixed race. The latter is all the more intriguing considering that Katz himself, being Jewish, was soon to become the victim of a political ideology marked by ideas similar to some of the ones he defended when writing about Southeast Asia.
摘要:波希米亚裔德国作家理查德-卡茨（1888-1968 年）的游记曾是德国文学中最受欢迎的出版物之一，但后来却被人们遗忘了。本文旨在从后殖民主义的视角重新解读卡茨战时的作品。文章以他描写荷属东印度群岛（即今天的印度尼西亚）的著作《Heitere Tage mit braunen Menschen》（1930 年）为重点，旨在解释我们在卡茨著作中发现的后殖民主义和反全球主义批判的早期形式如何以及为何能够与重申十九世纪殖民主义和种族主义对土著他者和混血儿的观念的其他思想共存。考虑到身为犹太人的卡茨本人很快就会成为一种政治意识形态的牺牲品，而这种意识形态的特点与他在撰写东南亚问题时所捍卫的某些观点相似，后者就更加耐人寻味了。
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The Journal of Austrian Studies is an interdisciplinary quarterly that publishes scholarly articles and book reviews on all aspects of the history and culture of Austria, Austro-Hungary, and the Habsburg territory. It is the flagship publication of the Austrian Studies Association and contains contributions in German and English from the world''s premiere scholars in the field of Austrian studies. The journal highlights scholarly work that draws on innovative methodologies and new ways of viewing Austrian history and culture. Although the journal was renamed in 2012 to reflect the increasing scope and diversity of its scholarship, it has a long lineage dating back over a half century as Modern Austrian Literature and, prior to that, The Journal of the International Arthur Schnitzler Research Association.
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