»China frisst Menschen« Dadaistische Ästhetik und Kolonialismuskritik bei Richard Huelsenbeck.
Richard Huelsenbeck’s 1930 novel China frisst Menschen (China devours People) combines travelogue, avant-garde formal experimentation, and anti-colonial reflection into a text that resists conventional genre classifications. This article shows how Huelsenbeck employs aesthetic strategies to destabil...
| Published in: | Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift (KWZ) no. 4; pp. 97 - 120 |
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Felix Meiner Verlag GmbH
2025
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