Titel	Der Amerikamüde (The Man Tired of America)
Labels
ID	8826
Type	publication >> novel
Date	1855

Collection(s)	manually created entity
Uri(s)	https://ica.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/entity/8826/
Notes	In this anti-American novel, Kürnberger writes about an Austrian-Hungarian poet who is disillusioned from America upon his arrival there. For the protagonist, the only solution to improving America's evil nature is a Germanification of the country and its people. Yet, in the process of trying to Germanize America, the character has become a corrupt Yankee himself. The basis of American polarization portrayed in the book is American prejudice against Europeans, with a noticable lack of any mention of slavery, abolitionism or North-South divide.
References	Kriegleder, Wynfrid. "Looking for a Scapegoat. Germanophone Novelists of the 19th and 20th Century Depicting a Polarized America." Polarization in the North Atlantic Triangle. Vienna: Verlag der ÖAW, 2023.