Élargir l’horizon des jeunes lecteurs : l’Afrique comme nouveau cadre du roman d’aventures pour la jeunesse en Allemagne à la fin du xixe siècle

At the end of the 19th century, more and more German authors of adventure stories for teenagers stop writing about America and turn to Africa and the territories conquered by European countries. This article focuses on the reasons why they opted for this and thus, why they opened the geographical horizon of young readers. This process, even though the racist prejudices of the 19th century underlie it, answers certainly to a real and honest interest on the part of the authors, but is also subj...