The historical context of the 1911 cholera epidemic in Italy is indeed significant in the contextualization and the production of the text. Thomas Mann wasn’t factually and historically incorrect when recording the presence of an “Asiatic cholera” originating from India in 1912 in his novella. This article focuses on the notion of tropicality, and the diseased body and what it means in terms of imagining the colonized spaces as represented in the novella, through the discourse of nineteenth century imperial medicine.
2 David Arnold, Imperial Medicine and Indigenous Societies, Manchester, Manchester University Press, (.)ġThomas Mann’s novella, Death in Venice ( Der Tod in Venedig) was published in 1912, and written during a time when cholera as a fatal disease had made its presence felt in Italy in 1911 and caused a series of fatalities.1 Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor, New York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1988.
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