seeing

as evidence, 56–57

as empirical method, 59–61, 135, 154

as possessing, 54, 67

as unmediated knowledge, 57, 59–61, 172

Segeth, Karl, 96, 203, 209

settlers lost at Lake Llanquihue, 81–83, 86, 199

ship entering port (in the German literary tradition), 70–71

silence of signification, 83–84

Simon, Carl Alexander

advocate for emigration, xxii, 1, 30, 43–45, 56, 150, 162, 191–192

death in Magallanes, xvi, 86–87, 200–201

infers German future in Chile from a map, 61–63, 194

involvement in Gesellschaft für nationale Auswanderung und Colonisation,, 39, 41, 202

Simon, Carl (eldest son of Carl Alexander), 187, 192

simulacrum, 57, 62

Sloterdijk, Peter, 92–93, 113, 201

song (as metonymy for Germanness), 28–30, 58–61

sources (for B. Philippi’s maps), 139, 142–143, 151, 211, 213–214

space structured by lines, 71–77, 79–80, 83–86, 118, 151–152, 154–155, 166

Spanish Conquest, 131

spatial disorder, 117

spatializing (discourse), 53, 106–107, 137

speech actSee also Austin, John, 13, 70, 93, 126

Spivak, Gayartri, 88

Spurr, David, xix, 77

“stage a priori,”, 92–93

stake (colonialist metaphor), 25, 75–76, 88

stock character, native, 83

Strait of Magellan, expedition to, 34–35

Stuttgart. See Gesellschaft für nationale Auswanderung und Colonisation (Stuttgart)

Suárez de Figueroa, Cristóval, 168

subaltern, 82, 88

subjecthood

and knowledge, 24

and language, 92–93, 113, 180, 201

and representation, 57

and text, 19

and the act of looking, 54, 56, 59–60

grammatical, 19, 60, 62, 69, 83–86, 115, 133

political, 12, 88, 92, 180, 210

“subtext,”, 18, 22

sun metaphorSee also heliotrope; metaphor, 16, 60

superstructure, 46–47

supremacy of overwriting, 143

surveillance, 56

surveying, 139

Susanna (ship),, 2

Swabian Colony, 72

Swiss, recruitment of, 33, 37–38