Screen LibraryThe genocidal gaze : from German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich /
The first genocide of the twentieth century, though not well known, was committed by Germans between 1904-1907 in the country we know today as Namibia, where they exterminated thousands of Herero and Nama people and subjected the surviving indigenous men, women, and children to forced labor. The per...
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Wayne State University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Detroit, Michigan : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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The first genocide of the twentieth century, though not well known, was committed by Germans between 1904-1907 in the country we know today as Namibia, where they exterminated thousands of Herero and Nama people and subjected the surviving indigenous men, women, and children to forced labor. The perception of Africans as subhuman--lacking any kind of civilization, history, or meaningful religion--and the resulting justification for the violence against them is what author Elizabeth R. Baer refers to as the "genocidal gaze," an attitude that was later perpetuated by the Nazis. In The Genocida |
| Item Description: | "While previous scholars have made ... links between the Herero and Nama genocide and that of the Holocaust, Baer's book is the first to examine literary texts that demonstrate this connection. Texts under consideration include the archive of Nama revolutionary Hendrik Witbooi; a colonial novel by German Gustav Frenssen (1906), in which the genocidal gaze conveyed an acceptance of racial annihilation; and three post-Holocaust texts--by German Uwe Timm, Ghanaian Ama Ata Aidoo, and installation artist William Kentridge of South Africa--that critique the genocidal gaze"--Publisher's website. |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 179 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, 1 map ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [155]-166) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780814344385 0814344380 9780814343852 0814343856 |
| Index Number: | PN1650 |
| CLC: | I106 |
| Call Number: | I106/B141 |
| Contents: | Introduction -- The African Gaze of Resistance in Hendrik Witbooi and Others -- The Genocidal Gaze in Gustav Frenssen's Peter Moor's Journey to Southwest Africa -- Uwe Timm's Critique of the Genocidal Gaze in Morenga and In My Brother's Shadow -- William Kentridge's Black Box/Chambre Noire : The Gaze on/in Herero Genocide, the Holocaust and Apartheid -- Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy : The African Gaze of Resistance Today -- Afterword. |