German Colonialism and National Identity [Paperback]

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.

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INTRODUCTION

Between Amnesia and Denial. Colonialism and German National Identity

Juergen Zimmerer and Michael PERRAUDIN (Sheffield)

 

SECTION 1: Colonialism before the Empire

Imperialism, Race and Genocide at the Paulskirche: Origins, Meanings, Trajectories

Brian VICK (Sheffield);

Time, Identity and Colonialism in German Travel Writing, 1848-1914: Gustav Nachtigals

Sahara und Sudan and Leo Frobeniuss Und Afrika Sprach

Tracey DAWE (Durham);

Performing the Metropolitan habitus in Africa. Some Notes on the Praxis of European Travellers in 19th-Century Eastern and Central Africa

Michael PESEK (Berlin)

 

SECTION 2: Local Histories, Local Memories

Communal Memory Events and the Heritage of the Victims

Reinhart K??LER (Bochum);

Commemorating the Past--Building the Future: The Churches and the Centenary of the Genocide in Namibia

Hanns LESSING (Dortmund);

Narratives of a Model Colony: German Togoland in Written and Oral Histories

Dennis LAUMANN (Memphis)

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