3: The Sovereign Subject under Siege: Ethnology and Ethnocentrism in Kafka’s “Description of a Struggle,” “Jackals und Arabs,” and “In the Penal Colony”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1: Empiricist Empires: Hofmannsthal’s Domestic Orientalism 15
7. 2: Empirical Mysticism and Imperial Mystique: Orientalism in Musil’s Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß 52
8. 3: The Sovereign Subject under Siege: Ethnology and Ethnocentrism in Kafka’s “Description of a Struggle,” “Jackals und Arabs,” and “In the Penal Colony” 73
9. 4: The Contingent Continent: Kafka’s China in “Beim Bau der chinesischen Mauer” and “Ein altes Blatt” 118
10. Conclusion 145
11. Works Cited 153
12. Index 165