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 | | At the official end of the colonial age, Ingeborg Bachmann, in her fragment of a novel, The Book of Franza (Das Buch Franza), portrayed the marriage of her title character as a relationship between (male) colonizer and colonized (female), and the termination of the marriage as an attempt at decolonization. |
 | | And, when Bachmann conceives the characters Jordan and Franza in terms of »two protagonists in the colonial drama«,[56] she is obviously ferreting out the nascent core of the political balance of imperialistic power in interpersonal human behavior. |
 | | Bachmann stressed more than once in her interviews her political and historical interests (see GuI, 42f.); it would follow, then, that a deficit in the author´s historical awareness could not be at fault for the fictional character's egregious manipulation of history. |
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