Dirk Göttsche

Remembering Africa (eBook, ePUB)

The Rediscovery of Colonialism in Contemporary German Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

A groundbreaking treatment of the themes of colonialism and Africa in German literary fiction as presented in some fifty novels from the past three decades.

In the late 1990s, in the wake of German unification, multiculturalism, and globalization, a surge of historical novels about German colonialism in Africa and its previously neglected legacies hit the German literary scene. This development, accelerated by the centenary in 2004 of Germany's colonial war in South-West Africa, has continued to the present, making colonialism an established theme of literary memorialization alongside Germany's dominant memorythemes -- National Socialism and the Holocaust, the former GDR and its demise in the Wende, and, more recently, "1968."
This is the first comprehensive study of contemporary German literature's intense engagement withGerman colonialism and with Germany's wider involvement in European colonialism. Building on the author's decade of research and publication in the field, the book discusses some fifty novels by German, Swiss, and Austrian writers, among them Hans Christoph Buch, Alex Capus, Christof Hamann, Lukas Hartmann, Ilona Maria Hilliges, Giselher W. Hoffmann, Dieter Kühn, Hermann Schulz, Gerhard Seyfried, Thomas von Steinaecker, Uwe Timm, Ilija Trojanow, and Stephan Wackwitz. Drawing on international postcolonial theory, the German tradition of cross-cultural literary studies, and on memory studies, the book brings the hitherto neglected German case to the international debate in postcolonial literary studies.

Dirk Göttsche is Professor of German at the University of Nottingham.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 494
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781580468206
• Artikelnr.: 56407105

Autorenporträt

Dirk Göttsche

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction From Colonial Fantasies to Postcolonial Memory: Historical and
Theoretical Parameters Remembering German Colonialism Rewriting Colonialism
in Cross-Cultural and Transcultural Perspective Remapping the History of
European Colonialism From the Past to the Present and Back: Colonial
History and Family History Conclusion: German (Post-) Colonial Memory in
Perspective Bibliography Index of Authors and Works Discussed General Index