Germany's Colonial Pasts

Peter Schenzel (Univ. Halle) 4972 2002 Dec 03 11:16:08

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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.

Sujets

• History of Europe
• Germany
• History

Informations

• Publié par: Nebraska Paperback
• Date de parution: 01 décembre 2005
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780803251199
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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General Editor Sander L. Gilman University of Illinois, Chicago

Editorial Board

David Bathrick Cornell University

J. Edward Chamberlin University of Toronto

Michael Fried The Johns Hopkins University

Robert Nye Oregon State University

Nancy Leys Stepan Wellcome Unit History of Medicine, Oxford University

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Germany’s Colonial Pasts

Edited by Eric Ames, Marcia Klotz, and Lora Wildenthal Foreword by Sander L. Gilman

University of Nebraska Press : Lincoln and London

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© 2005 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. Set in Quadraat fonts by Bob Reitz. Book designed by Richard Eckersley.  

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Germany’s colonial pasts / edited by Eric Ames, Marcia Klotz, and Lora Wildenthal; foreword by Sander L. Gilman p. cm. – (Texts and contexts) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn-10: 0-8032-4819-9isbn-13: 978-0-8032-4819-9 1. German literature – 19th century – History and criticism. 2. German literature – 20th century – His- tory and criticism. 3. Nationalism – Germany – History. 4. National characteristics, German, in litera- ture. 5. Imperialism – History – 19th century. 6. Germany – Foreign relations – 1918–7. Colonies in literature. 8. Nationalism in literature.i. Ames, Eric, 1969–ii. Klotz, Marcia, 1961–iii. Wildenthal, Lora, 1965–iv. Texts and contexts (Unnumbered) pt363.n27g47 2005 830.9'358 – dc22 2005009426

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In memory of Susanne Zantop (1945–2001)

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Sander L. Gilman Marcia Klotz

Woodruff D. Smith

Bradley D. Naranch

Vanessa Agnew

Sara Lennox

Kristin Kopp

David Simo

Pascal Grosse

Marcia Klotz

Susannah Heschel

Contents

ix Foreword xi Introduction 1p a r t 1. Identifications of Self and Other 3 Colonialism and the Culture of Respectability 21 Inventing theAuslandsdeutsche: Emigration, Colonial Fantasy, and German National Identity, 1848–71 41 The Colonialist Beginnings of Comparative Musicology 61p a r t 2. Orders of Colonial Regulation: Sex and Violence 63 Race, Gender, and Sexuality in German Southwest Africa: Hans Grimm’sSüdafrikan- ische Novellen 76 Constructing Racial Difference in Colonial Poland 97 Colonization and Modernization: The Legal Foundation of the Colonial Enterprise; A Case Study of German Colonization in Cameroon 1133p a r t . Colonial Racism and Antisemitism 115 What Does German Colonialism Have to Do with National Socialism? A Conceptual Framework 135 The Weimar Republic: A Postcolonial State in a Still-Colonial World 148 Theology as a Vision for Colonialism: From Supersessionism to Dejudaization in German Protestantism

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Elisa von Joeden-Forgey

Robert Gordon and Dennis Mahoney

Nina Berman

Patrice Nganang

1654p a r t . Nazi Visions of Africa 167 Race Power in Postcolonial Germany: The German Africa Show and the National Socialist State, 1935–40 189 Marching in Step: German Youth and Colonial Cinema 2035p a r t . Colonial Legacies: The Racialized Self 205 Autobiographical Accounts of Kenyan- German Marriages: Reception and Context 227 Autobiographies of Blackness in Germany 241 Contributors 243 Index

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Foreword

In my series Texts and Contexts I have published a number of distinguished books over the past decade, their subjects ranging from European and Jewish culture to human psychology. Never have I felt compelled to write a foreword to one of these books, as I believe that they should stand on their merits without any attempt on my part to argue for them. Many of these books have entered into the marketplace of ideas in the most extraordinary manner. They have increased my own reputation much more than I could have puffed theirs. Writing this foreword is very different. It is an act of homage to a colleague whose work I admired from the beginning of her academic career and whose murder (together with that of her husband Half ) shocked the nation. Susanne Zantop was a rare scholar. She was imbued with an enthusiasm for Spanish American as well as German culture because of her lived experiences in both. Early in her career she invited me to speak at a small Heine conference in Hanover, where I had a chance to talk at great length about our mutual love of Mexico, Mexican culture, and Spanish literature. My engagement with her was heightened when she published her major scholarly studyColonial Fantasies, in which she took on many of my own early views on German attitudes toward Africa and the Africans in a critical way. Good scholarship surveys the terrain of existing scholarship, building on it, rebutting it. Her scholarship certainly did this in such a way as to further the creation of a field – that of German colonial studies. Over the past decade, as a result of the current interest in postcolonial stud- ies, much of the work that I did in the 1960s and ’70s in response to the civil rights movement as well as my own study of stereotypes have undergone rad- ical reassessment. What was earlier a taboo subject within German Studies, undertaken only at its very fringes, became a bridge between German Stud- ies and the rest of European Studies. There was a search for the meaning of the German colonial experience, for the implications of that moment when the first German chancellor, Otto von Bismarck – against his own sense of what the new Germany should be – decided that engaging in the “scramble for Africa” (to use the contemporary phrase) was a necessary element in the

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