Ronald Daus

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Ronald Daus (born May 12, 1943 in Hanover ) is a German Romance philologist with a focus on Latin American studies .

Life

Ronald Daus studied Romance Studies ( Portuguese , Spanish , French , Italian ) and Oriental Studies ( Arabic , Malay , Tagalog ) in Hamburg , Lisbon , Rio de Janeiro and Kiel . In 1967 he received his doctorate on The Epic Cycle of Cangaceiros in Folk Poetry of Northeast Brazil . In 1970 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on Ramón Gómez de la Serna . In 1970 he was appointed professor of Hispanic , Lusitan and Latin American studies at the Free University of Berlin , where he researched and taught until his retirement in 2008.

Daus has been dealing with contacts between European peoples and non-European cultures in the field of "New Romania" for more than 40 years. He taught as a visiting professor a. a. two years at the Colegio de México in Mexico City and one year each at the Institute of South East Asian Studies in Singapore , the University of the Philippines in Manila and the Université du Pacifique in Tahiti .

His areas of expertise are overseas voyages of discovery, the emergence and further development of colonialism, European-non-European mixed cultures and non-European metropolitan literature and metropolitan research.

In addition to his publications, he was co-editor of the journal Neue Romania of the Free University of Berlin from 1982 to 2008 and has been co-editor of the journal Kosmopolis - Interkulturelle Zeitschrift from Berlin , Babylon Metropolis Studies , since 1997 .

Publications (selection)

  • The epic cycle of the cangaceiros in the folk poetry of northeastern Brazil. Dissertation. Colloquium, Berlin 1969.
  • Angry Latin America. Self-representation of a continent. Diederichs, Berlin 1973, ISBN 978-3-424-00497-7 .
  • The invention of colonialism. The Portuguese in Asia. Peter Hammer, Wuppertal 1983, ISBN 978-3-87294-202-9 .
  • Large cities outside Europe. 3 volumes. Babylon Metropolis Studies, Berlin 1990–1997.
  • Colonialism extreme. Stories from the Red Sea - Pictures from the Pacific. Babylon Metropolis Studies, Berlin 1998, ISBN 978-3-925529-08-5 .
  • Beach culture instead of city culture. The metropolises of the Mediterranean at the beginning of the 21st century. Babylon Metropolis Studies, Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-925529-12-2 .
  • Banlieue - open spaces in major European and non-European cities. 2 volumes. Babylon Metropolis Studies, Berlin 2002/2003.
  • La Guajira. How a wild country is told. Babylon Metropolis Studies, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-925529-25-2 .
  • World cities. From the norm to the whim. Babylon Metropolis Studies, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-925529-20-7 .
  • Atypical world cities. The shift of pleasure into the exotic: Tijuana, Cancun, Dubai. Babylon Metropolis Studies, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-925529-21-4 .
  • World city productions. Monomaniac reports from Berlin, Paris, Mexico City and Shanghai. Babylon Metropolis Studies, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-925529-22-1 .
  • The Spaniards in the Pacific - Reloaded. 1520-2015 (with Ursula Daus). Babylon Metropolis Studies, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-925529-33-7 .
  • The Invention of Colonialism - Revisited. Unabridged and revised new edition. Babylon Metropolis Studies, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-925529-32-0 .
  • with Ursula Daus : The art of not capsizing in stormy seas. The Manus of the Admiralty Islands in the 21st Century. Babylon Metropolis Studies, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-925529-36-8 .
  • with Ursula Daus: The "Casas-Palacio de Cargadores a Indias" of El Puerto de Santa María (Spain) in the 21st century. A literary finding. Babylon Metropolis Studies, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-925529-37-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Romania. 25 years of New Romania. No. 30 , Inst. For Romance Philology FU Berlin, Berlin 2004.
personal data
SURNAME Daus, Ronald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover