Contents -- Introduction: Germany's Wild East -- 1. Constructing German Colonial Space in the East: Gustav Freytag's Soll und Haben as Colonial Novel -- 2. The Black Pole and Racialized Space in German Inner Colonial Literature -- 3. A German Dracula: Fontane's Effi Briest and the Anxiety of a Reverse-Diffusional Slavic Flood -- 4. "Post-Colonial" Mappings: Cartographic Representations of Lost Colonial Space in the Interwar Period -- 5. Architectural Doppelgänger and "Post-Colonial" Spatial Claims in Fritz Lang's Nibelungen -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Illustrations.