Uncanny Encounters

John Zilcosky

earliest edition we have, 2015 Northwestern University Press, 2016 paperback 280 pages

Around 1900, when the last blank spaces on their maps were filled, Europeans traveled to far-flung places hoping to find traces of the spectacularly foreign. They discovered instead what Freud called, several years later, the "uncannily" familiar: disturbing reflections of themselves{u2014}either actual Europeans or Westernized natives. This experience was most extreme for German travelers, who arrived in the contact...

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Uncanny Encounters hardcover · 2016 · Northwestern University Press · 280 pages · 9780810132108
Uncanny Encounters paperback · 2016 · Northwestern University Press · 280 pages · 9780810132092
Uncanny Encounters edition · 2015 · Northwestern University Press · 9780810132115

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