ABSTRACT
This chapter examines dynamic in two of Wilhelm Raabe's works, Abu Telfan and Zum wilden Mann. Abu Telfan uses Leonhard Hagebucher to evoke and subsequently undermine the predominant narrative of German exploration as a purely scientific, non-colonial endeavour, whereas Zumwilden Mann questions popular portrayals of German colonialism in Brazil. Raabe as an international writer, it is essential to examine his works as part of a broader discourse on internationalism, colonialism, and exploration. Raabe is an international writer, at least in part, because he published so many of his works in a magazine that strove to provide its audience with an international perspective. Raabe might also have been familiar with this exploitative trend through the writings of Friedrich Gerstacker, who in 1866 published Ein Parcerie-Vertrag, in which an unscrupulous emigration agent uses exaggerated promises about South America to convince a naive German worker to transplant his family to Brazil.
