Writing a National Colony: The Hostility of Inscription in the German Settlement of Lake Llanquihue
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

ix

Preface

xi

Acknowledgments

xiii

Introduction

xv

Chapter 1: Writing the Colony

1

Rewriting

4

The Host of Writings

10

Truth and Territory

22

Germanness: A People Without Country

26

Chile: A Country Without People

30

Competition and Menschenkapital

37

Chapter 2: The Vertical and the Horizontal Gaze

51

Apollonian Vision

56

The Horizontal Perspective

63

Penetration

71

Erasing the Native

78

Chapter 3: The Naturalist’s Performance

89

The Geographic Society

94

Botanizing

99

Inscribing the Nation

112

Hegemonic Encounters

118

Chapter 4: Transcriptions

129

Fiction and Geography

133

Con-texts

144