
Germany's Colonial Pasts
University of Nebraska Press
Published on 1. December 2005
Book
Hardback
260 pages
978-0-8032-4819-9 (ISBN)
Description
Germany's Colonial Pasts is a wide-ranging study of German colonialism and its legacies. Inspired by Susanne Zantop's landmark book Colonial Fantasies, and extending her analyses there, this volume offers new research by scholars from Europe, Africa, and the United States. It also commemorates Zantop's distinguished life and career (1945-2001). Some essays in this volume focus on Germany's formal colonial empire in Africa and the Pacific between 1884 and 1914, while others present material from earlier or later periods such as German emigration before 1884 and colonial discourse in German-ruled Polish lands. Several essays examine Germany's postcolonial era, a complex period that includes the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany with its renewed colonial obsessions, and the post-1945 era. Particular areas of emphasis include the relationship of anti-Semitism to colonial racism; respectability, sexuality, and cultural hierarchies in the formal empire; Nazi representations of colonialism; and contemporary perceptions of race. The volume's disciplinary reach extends to musicology, religious studies, film, and tourism studies as well as literary analysis and history. These essays demonstrate why modern Germany must confront its colonial and postcolonial pasts, and how those pasts continue to shape the German cultural imagination.
Reviews / Votes
""For social historians and those interested in the larger field of German Studies, this is serious work.""-ChoiceMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Lincoln
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Illus., map
Dimensions
Height: 237 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
540 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8032-4819-9 (9780803248199)
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Eric Ames | Marcia Klotz | Lora Wildenthal
Germany's Colonial Pasts
E-Book
12/2005
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Persons
Eric Ames is an assistant professor of German at the University of Washington. Marcia Klotz is an instructor in the English department at Portland State University. Lora Wildenthal is an associate professor of history at Rice University. Sander L. Gilman is Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Emory University and the author of Fat Boys: A Slim Book (Nebraska 2004).
Content
Part I: Politics of Colonial Culture 1. "What Does German Colonialism Have To Do With National Socialism?" Pascal Grosse, Humboldt University Berlin; 2. "The Introduction of Protectorate Law in Togo and Cameroon" David Simo, University of Yaounde, Cameroon; 3. "The Weimar Republic: A Postcolonial State in a Still-Colonial World" Marcia Klotz, University of California at Irvine Part II: Gender and Sexuality 4. "Sittenkontrolle ist hier bereits eingefuhrt: Jewish Prostitution in German Southwest Africa" Joachim Warmbold, Tel Aviv University; 5. "Race, Gender, and Sexuality in German Southwest Africa. Han's Grimm's Sudafrikanische Novellen" Sara Lennox, University of Massachusetts at Amherst; 6. "Going Native in Kenya" Nina Berman, Ohio State University Part III: Identifications of Self and Other 7. "Inventing the Auslandsdeutsche: Emigration, Colonial Fantasy, and German Diasporic Identity, 1848-1870" Bradley Naranch, Johns Hopkins University; 8. "Colonialism and the Culture of Respectability" Woodruff D. Smith, University of Massachusetts at Boston; 9. "Music and German Construction of Race in the Pacific" Vanessa Agnew, University of Michigan Part IV: Nazi Visions of Africa 10. "Race Power in Postcolonial Germany: The German Africa Show and the National Socialist Sate, 1935-1940" Elisa von Joeden-Forgey, University of Pennsylvania; 11. "Raum ohne Volk: German Colonial Film Propaganda" Robert Gordon, University of Vermont & Dennis Mahoney, University of Vermont Part V: Reflections of Colonialism 12. "Tranquebar Tales: The Colonial Labyrinths of a German Archive" Gita Rajan, Hunter College of the City University of New York; 13. "Constructing Racial Difference in 'Colonial Poland'" Kristin Kopp, Harvard University; 14. "Theology as a Vision for Colonialism: From Supersessionism to Dejudaization in German Protestantism" Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College; 15. "Approaches from the Outside: Autobiographies of Black Men in Germany" Alain Patrice Nganang, Shippensburg University