German Colonialism and National Identity

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. .

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 Nachtigal's "Sahara und Sudan' and Leo Frobenius's "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 KLER (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) SECTION 3: Heroic Discourses in the Imperial Centre Germany's War in China: Media Coverage & Political Myth Yixu LU (Sydney); Genocide in German South-West Africa: an Overview of the Discussion it Generated Robin Krause (Clark University); Abuses of German Colonial History: the Character of Carl Peters as Weapon for Volkisch and National Socialist Discourses: Anglophobia, Anti-Semitism, Aryanism Constant KPAO SARE (Saarland) SECTION 4: Colonialism and German Literature Fraternity, Frenzy and Genocide. War Literature and the Colonial "Other' Jorg LEHMANN (Berlin); Representing German Colonial Interventions in Poland Kristin KOPP (Missouri); A Spotlight on a Dark Chapter in German History: Criticism of German Colonialism in Uwe Timm's novel "Morenga' and its Reception by the West German Public Esther ALMSTADT (Bremen) SECTION 5: Colonialism and Popular Culture Exotic Education: Writing Empire for German Boys and Girls, 1884-1914 Jeffrey BOWERSOX (Toronto); Picturing Genocide in German Consumer Culture, 1904-1910 David CIARLO (MIT, Boston); "Greetings from Africa'--The Visual Representation of Blackness under German Imperialism Volker LANGBEHN (San Francisco) SECTION 6: Colonialism after the End of Empire "Loyal Askari' and "Black Rapist'--Two Images in the German Discourse on National Identity and their Impact on the Lives of Black People in Germany, 1918-1945 Susanne LEWERENZ (Hamburg); "Denkmalsturz.' The German Student Movement and German Colonialism Ingo CORNILS (Leeds); Reflections on the Idea of "Colonial Amnesia' in post-1945 West Germany Monika ALBRECHT (Menster); The Persistence of (Colonial) Fantasies Wolfgang STRUCK (Erfurt) SECTION 7: The Transnational Dimension The Herero Genocide and Politics of Memory Dominik SCHALLER (Heidelberg); Vergangenheitsbewaltigung a la francaise. (Post-)Colonial memories of the Herero Genocide and 17 October, 1961 Kathryn JONES (Swansea); Beyond Empire: German Women in Africa 1919-1933 Britta SCHILLING (Oxford) SECTION 8: Mainstreaming Colonialism Colonialism and the Simplification of Language: Germany's "kolonial-deutsch' Experiment Kenneth OROSZ (Maine); Aspects of German Identity in the African Colonies: the Role of the Local Press Elisabeth SCHMIDT (Paris); Torn between Two Lovers: the Intercultural Discipline "Germanistik' in Postcolonial Sub-Saharan Africa? Arndt WITTE (Maynooth) Notes Bibliography Index