List, Täuschung, Ambivalenz. Postkoloniale Strategien in Heinrich von Kleists Die Hermannsschlacht

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Podstęp, oszustwo, ambiwalencja. Strategie poskolonialne w Die Hermannschlacht Heinricha von Kleista

Kleist’s hero Hermann/Arminius has been considered a ‚terrorist‘, a decadent figure and a liar who betrays the confidence of his Roman friends and murders them. He also is at war with his own family and countrymen he is supposed to defend. In this interpretation, Hermann’s methods have been mistakenly presumed to be his aim. Adopting a postcolonial approach, this paper analyzes ruse and feint as ambivalent strategies and aesthetic categories Kleist uses to put on stage the tactics of colonial discourse and techniques of anticolonial struggle as well.