German Colonialism and National Identity

ISBN-13: 9781138868083 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 340 str.

Michael Perraudin; Juergen Zimmerer

Opis

German colonialism is a thriving field of study. From North America to Japan, within Germany, Austria and Switzerland, scholars are increasingly applying post-colonial questions and methods to the study of Germany and its culture. However, no introduction on this emerging field of study has combined political and cultural approaches, the study of literature and art, and the examination of both metropolitan and local discourses and memories. This book will fill that gap and offer a broad prelude, of interest to any scholar and student of German history and culture as well as of colonialism in general. It will be an indispensable tool for both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. .

Spis treści

Introduction. German Colonialism and National Identity. Michael Perraudin and Jürgen Zimmerer  Section A. Colonialism from before the Empire  Chapter 1. Imperialism, Race, and Genocide at the Paulskirche: Origins, Meanings, Trajectories. Brian Vick  Chapter Two. Time, Identity and Colonialism in German Travel Writing on Africa, 1848-1914. Tracey Dawe  Chapter 3. Gray Zones: On the Inclusion of "Poland" in the Study of German Colonialism. Kristin Kopp  Section B. Colonialism and Popular Utterance in the Imperial Phase  Chapter 4. The War that Scarcely Was: The Berliner Morgenpost and the Boxer Uprising. Yixu Lü  Chapter 5. Boy’s and Girl’s Own Empires: Gender and the Uses of the Colonial World in Kaiserreich Youth Magazines. Jeffrey Bowersox  Chapter 6. Picturing Genocide in German Consumer Culture, 1904-1910. David Ciarlo  Chapter 7. The Visual Representation of Blackness during German Imperialism around 1900. Volker Langbehn  Chapter 8. Colonialism and the Simplification of Language: Germany’s Kolonial-Deutsch Experiment. Kenneth Orosz  Section C. Colonialism and the End of Empire  Chapter 9. Fraternity, Frenzy, and Genocide in German War Literature, 1906-1936. Jörg Lehmann  Chapter 10. Colonial Heroes: German Colonial Identities in Wartime, 1914-1918. Michael Pesek  Chapter 11. Crossing Boundaries: German Women in Africa, 1919-1933. Britta Schilling  Chapter 12. Abuses of German Colonial History: The Character of Carl Peters as Weapon for völkisch and National-Socialist Discourses: Anglophobia, Anti-Semitism and Aryanism. Constant Kpao Sarè  Chapter 13. "Loyal Askari" and "Black Rapist"--Two Images in the German Discourse on National Identity and their Impact on the Lives of Black People in Germany, 1918-1945. Susann Lewerenz  Section D. German Colonialism in the Era of Decolonization  Chapter 14. (Post-) Colonial Amnesia? German Debates on Colonialism and Decolonization in the Post-war Era. Monika Albrecht  Chapter 15. Denkmalsturz. The German Student Movement and German Colonialism. Ingo Cornils  Chapter 16. Vergangenheitsbewältigung à la française: Post-Colonial Memories of the Herero Genocide and 17 October 1961. Kathryn Jones  Chapter 17. The Persistence of Fantasies. Colonialism as Melodrama on German Television. Wolfgang Struck  Section E. Local Histories, Memories, Legacies  Chapter 18. Communal Memory Events and the Heritage of the Victims. The Persistence of the Theme of Genocide in Namibia. Reinhart Kössler  Chapter 19. The Genocide in "German South-West Africa" and the Politics of Commemoration--How (Not) to Come to Terms with the Past. Henning Melber  Chapter 20. The Struggle for Genocidal Exclusivity. The Perception of the Murder of the Namibian Herero (1904-08) in the Age of a New International Morality. Dominik J. Schaller  Chapter 21. Narratives of a "Model Colony": German Togoland in Written and Oral Histories. Dennis Laumann  Chapter 22. Suspended between Worlds? The Discipline of Germanistik in sub-Saharan Africa. Arndt Witte

O autorze

Juergen Zimmerer is Professor of History at the University of Hamburg in Germany. His areas of research and publication include German Colonialism, Genocide Studies, the Holocaust and African and Global History. Michael Perraudin is Professor of German at the University of Sheffield, and has previously taught at Trinity College, Dublin, and the University of Birmingham. His research focus is on 19th-century German literature, especially that of the Biedermeier/Vormärz, and its social and political contexts. His books include Literature, the ‘Volk’ and the Revolution in Mid-19th-Century Germany (Oxford: Berghahn, 2000) and Formen der Wirklichkeitserfassung nach 1848. Deutsche Literatur und Kultur vom Nachmärz bis zur Gründerzeit in europäischer Perspektive (co-edited with Helmut Koopmann, Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2003). He has also published numerous articles on 19th- and 20th-century literary authors.