German Colonialism Revisitedbrings together military historians, art historians, literary scholars, cultural theorists, and linguists to address a range of issues surrounding colonized African, Asian, and Oceanic people’s creative reactions to and interactions with German colonialism. This scholarship sheds new light on local power dynamics; agency; and economic, cultural, and social networks that preceded and, as some now argue, ultimately structured German colonial rule. Going beyond issues of resistance, these essays present colonialism as a shared event from which both the colonized and the colonizers emerged changed.
The first collection of interdisciplinary and comparative studies focusing on diverse interactions among African, Asian, and Oceanic peoples and German colonizers
Nina Bermanis Professor and Director of the School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University.
Klaus Mühlhahnis Professor of Chinese History and Culture at Freie Universität Berlin.
Patrice Nganang is Professor of Literary and Cultural Theory at Stony Brook University, New York.
"This valuable multidisciplinary anthology provides 17 chapters about dynamic and creative responses to German colonial rule from the 1820s until the 1990s and includes single-case and comparative studies of former colonies around the world. Drawing on recent scholarship in anthropology, art history, film studies, German studies, history, and literary studies, the collection illuminates colonial discourses by focusing on the experiences, practices, and responses of the colonized… The writing is lively and the arguments cogent. Overall, this is a fresh, new perspective… Highly recommended."
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"In their comprehensive introduction, the editors outline their aim: to foreground the kinds of colonial encounters which have 'not rl³®
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