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The imperialist imagination : German colonialism and its legacy, edited by Sara Friedrichsmeyer, Sara Lennox, and Susanne Zantop

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"Race relations" are a controversial topic in today's Germany. Have Germans learned from the past? How far back must one go to understand the tensions, prejudices, and strategies that have marked race relations in the recently unified nation? The Imperialist Imagination explores the German preoccupation with racial and ethnic differences throughout the past two centuries, in a colonial and "postcolonial" context. Germany's belated national unification in 1870, its short colonial period (1884-1918), and the loss of its colonies as a consequence of World War I, rather than through wars of liberation, generated very different colonial and postcolonial conditions from those in Britain and France. This volume's sixteen essays investigate how, as a consequence of these conditions, Germans imagined their relationship to racial and ethnic others: how they supported and contested colonization during the colonial period, how their colonial fantasies fed into the Nazis' racial and expansionary policies after the loss of German colonies, and how they represent their relationship to German minorities and "foreigners" within and outside Germany today. The contributors include scholars in literature, history, art history, political science, philosophy, ethnography, film, popular culture, photography, and theater. The anthology will appeal not only to Germanists but to all those interested in postcolonial and cultural studies. Sara Friedrichsmeyer is Professor of German, University of Cincinnati. Sara Lennox is Professor of German, University of Massachusetts. Susanne Zantop is Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College. Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Arts, German 20th century, Exoticism in art Germany, Imperialism in art, Colonies in art, Germany Colonies Africa History, Nationalism Germany History."--
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vi, 370 pages
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  • Nietzsche's colonialist imagination : Nueva Germania, good Europeanism, and great politics / Robert C. Holub
  • Orientalism, imperialism, and nationalism : Karl May's Orientzyklus / Nina Berman
  • Engendering German nationalism : gender and race in Frieda von Bülow's colonial writings / Friederike Eigler
  • National identity, nomadism, and narration in Gustav Frenssen's Peter Moor's journey to Southwest Africa / John K. Noyes
  • The talk of genocide, the rhetoric of miscegenation : notes on debates in the German Reichstag concerning Southwest Africa, 1904-14 / Helmut Walser Smith
  • On colonial spaces and bodies : Hans Grimm's Geschichten aus Südwestafrika / Thomas Nolden
  • Formalism to psychoanalysis : on the politics of primitivism in Carl Einstein / Andreas Michel
  • Mapping the native body : on Africa and the colonial film in the Third Reich / Sabine Hake
  • Reading the face of the other : Arnold Zweig's and Hermann Struck's Das ostjüdische Antlitz / Leslie Morris
  • Blacks, Germans, and the politics of imperial imagination, 1920-60 / Tina Campt, Pascal Grosse, and Yara-Colette Lemke-Muniz de Faria
  • Of seeing and otherness : Leni Riefenstahl's African photographs / Lisa Gates
  • White ladies and dark continents in Ingeborg Bachmann's Todesarten / Sara Lennox
  • Imagining migrants' literature : intercultural alterity in Jeannette Lander's Jahrhundert der Herren / Leslie A. Adelson
  • Christoph Hein's Horns Ende : Gypsy essences and German community / Sara Friedrichsmeyer
  • Ethnic drag and national identity : multicultural crises, crossings, and interventions / Katrin Sieg
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9780472096824
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The imperialist imagination : German colonialism and its legacy
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The imperialist imagination
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German colonialism and its legacy
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edited by Sara Friedrichsmeyer, Sara Lennox, and Susanne Zantop
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eng
Summary
"Race relations" are a controversial topic in today's Germany. Have Germans learned from the past? How far back must one go to understand the tensions, prejudices, and strategies that have marked race relations in the recently unified nation? The Imperialist Imagination explores the German preoccupation with racial and ethnic differences throughout the past two centuries, in a colonial and "postcolonial" context. Germany's belated national unification in 1870, its short colonial period (1884-1918), and the loss of its colonies as a consequence of World War I, rather than through wars of liberation, generated very different colonial and postcolonial conditions from those in Britain and France. This volume's sixteen essays investigate how, as a consequence of these conditions, Germans imagined their relationship to racial and ethnic others: how they supported and contested colonization during the colonial period, how their colonial fantasies fed into the Nazis' racial and expansionary policies after the loss of German colonies, and how they represent their relationship to German minorities and "foreigners" within and outside Germany today. The contributors include scholars in literature, history, art history, political science, philosophy, ethnography, film, popular culture, photography, and theater. The anthology will appeal not only to Germanists but to all those interested in postcolonial and cultural studies. Sara Friedrichsmeyer is Professor of German, University of Cincinnati. Sara Lennox is Professor of German, University of Massachusetts. Susanne Zantop is Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College. Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Arts, German 20th century, Exoticism in art Germany, Imperialism in art, Colonies in art, Germany Colonies Africa History, Nationalism Germany History."--
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1945-2001
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  • Lennox, Sara
  • Zantop, Susanne
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Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
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  • Arts, German
  • Exoticism in art
  • Imperialism in art
  • Colonies in art
  • Nationalism
  • Germany
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The imperialist imagination : German colonialism and its legacy, edited by Sara Friedrichsmeyer, Sara Lennox, and Susanne Zantop
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/umich051/98025522.html
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-358) and index
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Nietzsche's colonialist imagination : Nueva Germania, good Europeanism, and great politics / Robert C. Holub -- Orientalism, imperialism, and nationalism : Karl May's Orientzyklus / Nina Berman -- Engendering German nationalism : gender and race in Frieda von Bülow's colonial writings / Friederike Eigler -- National identity, nomadism, and narration in Gustav Frenssen's Peter Moor's journey to Southwest Africa / John K. Noyes -- The talk of genocide, the rhetoric of miscegenation : notes on debates in the German Reichstag concerning Southwest Africa, 1904-14 / Helmut Walser Smith -- On colonial spaces and bodies : Hans Grimm's Geschichten aus Südwestafrika / Thomas Nolden -- Formalism to psychoanalysis : on the politics of primitivism in Carl Einstein / Andreas Michel -- Mapping the native body : on Africa and the colonial film in the Third Reich / Sabine Hake -- Reading the face of the other : Arnold Zweig's and Hermann Struck's Das ostjüdische Antlitz / Leslie Morris -- Blacks, Germans, and the politics of imperial imagination, 1920-60 / Tina Campt, Pascal Grosse, and Yara-Colette Lemke-Muniz de Faria -- Of seeing and otherness : Leni Riefenstahl's African photographs / Lisa Gates -- White ladies and dark continents in Ingeborg Bachmann's Todesarten / Sara Lennox -- Imagining migrants' literature : intercultural alterity in Jeannette Lander's Jahrhundert der Herren / Leslie A. Adelson -- Christoph Hein's Horns Ende : Gypsy essences and German community / Sara Friedrichsmeyer -- Ethnic drag and national identity : multicultural crises, crossings, and interventions / Katrin Sieg
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FIEb17554937
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24 cm.
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vi, 370 pages
Isbn
9780472096824
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rdamedia.
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(OCoLC)39679479
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The imperialist imagination : German colonialism and its legacy, edited by Sara Friedrichsmeyer, Sara Lennox, and Susanne Zantop
Link
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/umich051/98025522.html
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-358) and index
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volume
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  • nc
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rdacarrier.
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text
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  • txt
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rdacontent.
Contents
Nietzsche's colonialist imagination : Nueva Germania, good Europeanism, and great politics / Robert C. Holub -- Orientalism, imperialism, and nationalism : Karl May's Orientzyklus / Nina Berman -- Engendering German nationalism : gender and race in Frieda von Bülow's colonial writings / Friederike Eigler -- National identity, nomadism, and narration in Gustav Frenssen's Peter Moor's journey to Southwest Africa / John K. Noyes -- The talk of genocide, the rhetoric of miscegenation : notes on debates in the German Reichstag concerning Southwest Africa, 1904-14 / Helmut Walser Smith -- On colonial spaces and bodies : Hans Grimm's Geschichten aus Südwestafrika / Thomas Nolden -- Formalism to psychoanalysis : on the politics of primitivism in Carl Einstein / Andreas Michel -- Mapping the native body : on Africa and the colonial film in the Third Reich / Sabine Hake -- Reading the face of the other : Arnold Zweig's and Hermann Struck's Das ostjüdische Antlitz / Leslie Morris -- Blacks, Germans, and the politics of imperial imagination, 1920-60 / Tina Campt, Pascal Grosse, and Yara-Colette Lemke-Muniz de Faria -- Of seeing and otherness : Leni Riefenstahl's African photographs / Lisa Gates -- White ladies and dark continents in Ingeborg Bachmann's Todesarten / Sara Lennox -- Imagining migrants' literature : intercultural alterity in Jeannette Lander's Jahrhundert der Herren / Leslie A. Adelson -- Christoph Hein's Horns Ende : Gypsy essences and German community / Sara Friedrichsmeyer -- Ethnic drag and national identity : multicultural crises, crossings, and interventions / Katrin Sieg
Control code
FIEb17554937
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
vi, 370 pages
Isbn
9780472096824
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unmediated
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rdamedia.
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(OCoLC)39679479

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