German Colonialism and National Identity

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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 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 KOssLER (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 (Munster) 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