Screen LibraryGerman colonialism revisited : African, Asian, and Oceanic experiences /
"German Colonialism Revisited brings 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. Th...
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The University of Michigan Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Ann Arbor : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
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| Summary: |
"German Colonialism Revisited brings 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. They contribute to current debates on transnational and intercultural processes and highlight the ways in which the legacy of the German colonial period is embedded in the global expansion of capitalism, technology, and the Western legal framework"-- |
| Carrier Form: | vi, 349 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-331) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780472119127 0472119125 |
| Index Number: | JV2035 |
| CLC: | D066 |
| Call Number: | D066/G373 |
| Contents: |
Introduction / Architecture with a mission : Bamum autoethnography during the period of German colonialism / "The Germans cannot master our language!" or, German colonial rulers and the Beti in the Cameroonian hinterlands / Sex and control in Germany's overseas possessions : venereal disease and indigenous agency / Ruga-ruga : the history of an African profession, 1820-1918 / Bomani : African soldiers as colonial intermediaries in German East Africa, 1890-1914 / Pioneers of empire? : the making of sisal plantations in German East Africa, 1890-1917 / "Zake: the Papuan chief" : an alliance with a German missionary in colonial Kaiser-Wilhelmsland (Oceania) / Germany and the Chinese coolie : labor, resistance, and the struggle for equality, 1884-1914 / The other German colonialism" : power, conflict, and resistance in a German-speaking mission to China, ca. 1850-1920 / Nationalism and pragmatism : the revolutionists in German Qingdao (1897-1914) / Anti-colonial nationalism and cosmopolitan "standard time" : Lala Har Dayal's Forty four months in Germany and Turkey (1920) / "Acting cannibal" : intersecting strategies, conflicting interests, and the ambiguities of cultural resistance in Iringa, German East Africa / The "Truppenspieler Show" : Herero masculinity and the German colonial military aesthetic / Recollection and intervention : memory of German colonialism in contemporary African migrant's writing / The shadows of history : photography and colonialism in William Kentridge's Black box/Chambre noire / Germans and the death throes of the Qing : Mo Yan's The sandalwood torture / The origins of German minority cinema in colonial film / |