The Body of the People and Its Borders. Racism and Nationalism in the Weimar Republic

我的项目建议通过对保守革命党人在魏玛共和国的社区建设进行跨学科分析，对种族主义和民族主义之间的结构性联系进行系谱学研究。它提出了第一次研究的概念，（人民的身体）作为一种话语的边界，并提供了一个关键的洞察民族主义话语的身体和宪法的有机社区的著作中的两个关键代表的保守革命：格林和Zöberlein，其畅销小说（Volk ohne Raum，1926; Der Glaube an Deutschland，1931）在魏玛共和国时期塑造了纳粹党的法西斯形象。关于格里姆关于“人民”的领土归属的论述和策伯莱因关于“内部”共同体的建构，我的项目将把法西斯共同体的构成定位于其边界的双重建构中：“日耳曼性”的“内部”边界（在策伯莱因关于德意志殉难的有机论述中）和其领土的外部边界（在格里姆关于生活空间的殖民论述中）。对他们两次世界大战之间的著作（包括Zöberlein未发表的1931年前的信件和格林在马尔巴赫文学档案中关于德属西南非洲的笔记）的比较分析将在更广泛的历史背景下被视为对地缘政治边界制度危机的反应。我的项目将通过后殖民和批判理论的应用，法西斯体政治的问题，种族主义和边界危机之间的关系发展的帐户。在这方面，我将分析有机性和Volk（人民）的政治主体之间的关系，关于身体隐喻以及在格林和Zöberlein的著作中关于边界和领土的话语。

My project proposes a genealogical study of the structural connection between racism and nationalism through an interdisciplinary analysis of the Conservative Revolutionaries' construction of community in the Weimar Republic. It presents the first study of the concept of Volkskörper (the people's body) as a discourse on borders and offers a critical insight into the nationalist discourse on corporeality and the constitution of an organic community in the writings of two key representatives of Conservative Revolutionaries: Grimm and Zöberlein, whose bestselling novels (Volk ohne Raum, 1926; Der Glaube an Deutschland, 1931) forged the fascist imagery of NSDAP in the Weimar Republic period. In regard to Grimm's discourse on territorial belonging of "the people" and to Zöberlein's construction of an "inner" community, my project will locate the constitution of a fascist community in a dual construction of its borders: the "inner" border of "Germanness" (in Zöberlein's organic discourse on German martyrdom) and the external border of its territory (in Grimm's colonial discourse on Lebensraum - living space). The comparative analysis of their interwar writings (including Zöberlein's unpublished pre-1931 letters and Grimm's notes from German Southwest Africa in Marbach Literaturarchiv) will be considered in a broader historical context as a reaction to a crisis of geopolitical border-regimes. My project will develop an account of the relationship between racism and a crisis of borders through an application of post-colonial and critical theory to the question of a fascist body-politic. In this regard I will analyse the relation between organicity and the political subject of Volk (the people) in regard to bodily metaphors as well as to the discourse on borders and territory in Grimm's and Zöberlein's writings.