Books by Todd Kontje

Building on Edward Said's 'Orientalism', which defined Orientalism as a form of Western knowledge directly linked to imperial power, Todd Kontje offers a more nuanced version as seen through the lens of German literature of the last 1500 years.

Provides a comprehensive reevaluation of Thomas Mann as the representative German author of the Age of Empire, placing Mann's comments about Jews and the Jewish characters in his fiction in the larger context of his attentiveness to racial difference, both in the world at large and in himself.