Ashantee
This collection of thirty-eight impressionist episodes describes a white man's friendship with a group of Ashanti tribespeople from the Gold Coast of Africa (the former British colony known today as Ghana), who in 1896 were put on display as living objects in a popular ethnographic exhibit in the Vienna Zoological Garden, then still located in Vienna's famous amusement park called Prater. The exhibit caused a veritable Ashanti fever as the show attracted five to six thousand visitors per day. Altenberg, barely disguised as Ashantee's autobiographical character Sir Peter, shows a genuine curiosity about the cultural Other and paints a critical…
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- ISBN: 978-1-57241-155-5
- EAN: 9781572411555
- Produktnummer: 23322700
- Verlag: Ariadne Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 128 S.
- Masse: H21.5 cm x B13.9 cm x D0.9 cm 196 g
- Abbildungen: b/w illus
- Gewicht: 196
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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