German colonialism revisited : African, Asian, and Oceanic experiences / Nina Berman, Klaus Mühlhahn, Patrice Nganang, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berman, Nina, editor.

Mühlhahn, Klaus, editor.

Nganang, Alain Patrice, editor.

Series:

Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colonization.

Social aspects.

History.

Indigenous peoples.

Social conditions.

Colonies.

Germany--Colonies--Africa--History.

Germany--Colonies--Asia--History.

Germany--Colonies--Oceania--History.

Indigenous peoples--Africa--Social conditions.

Indigenous peoples--Asia--Social conditions.

Indigenous peoples--Oceania--Social conditions.

Africa--Colonization--Social aspects--History.

Asia--Colonization--Social aspects--History.

Oceania--Colonization--Social aspects--History.

Colonization--Social aspects.

Indigenous peoples--Social conditions.

Africa.

Asia.

Germany.

Oceania.

Oceania Region.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 349 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2014]

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 1 Interactions

Architecture with a Mission: Bamum Autoethnography during the Period of German Colonialism / Itohan I. Osayimwese Osayimwese, Itohan I. 31

"The Germans cannot master our language!" or German Colonial Rulers and the Beti in the Cameroonian Hinterlands / Germain Nyada Nyada, Germain, Amber Suggitt Suggitt, Amber 50

Sex and Control in Germany's Overseas Possessions: Venereal Disease and Indigenous Agency / Daniel J. Walther Walther, Daniel J. 71

Ruga-ruga: The History of an African Profession, 1820-1918 / Michael Pesek Pesek, Michael 85

Bomani: African Soldiers as Colonial Intermediaries in German East Africa, 1890-1914 / Michelle Moyd Moyd, Michelle 101

Pioneers of Empire? The Making of Sisal Plantations in German East Africa, 1890-1917 / Hanan Sabea Sabea, Hanan 114

"Zake: The Papuan Chief": An Alliance with a German Missionary in Colonial Kaiser-Wilhelmsland (Oceania) / Gabriele Richter Richter, Gabriele 130

Part 2 Resistance, Anti-colonial Activism, and the Rise of Nationalist Discourses

Germany and the Chinese Coolie: Labor, Resistance, and the Struggle for Equality, 1884-1914 / Andreas Steen Steen, Andreas 147

The Other German Colonialism: Power, Conflict, and Resistance in a German-speaking Mission in China, ca. 1850-1920 / Thoralf Klein Klein, Thoralf 161

Nationalism and Pragmatism: The Revolutionists in German Qingdao (1897-1914) / Jianjun Zhu Zhu, Jianjun 179

Anti-colonial Nationalism and Cosmopolitan "Standard Time": Lala Har Dayal's Forty Four Months in Germany and Turkey (1920) / B. Venkat Mani Mani, B. Venkat 195

Acting Cannibal: Intersecting Strategies, Conflicting Interests, and the Ambiguities of Cultural Resistance in Iringa, German East Africa / Eva Bischoff Bischoff, Eva 212

The "Truppenspieler Show": Herero Masculinity and the German Colonial Military Aesthetic / Molly McCullers McCullers, Molly 226

Part 3 Remembering and Rethinking

Recollection and Intervention: Memory of German Colonialism in Contemporary African Migrants' Writing / Dirk Göttsche Göttsche, Dirk 245

The Shadows of History: Photography and Colonialism in William Kentridge's Black Box/Chambre Noire / Andrew J. Hennlich Hennlich, Andrew J. 259

Germans and the Death-Throes of the Qing: Mo Yan's The Sandalwood Torture / Yixu Lü Lü, Yixu 271

The Origins of German Minority Cinema in Colonial Film / Patrice Nganang Nganang, Patrice 284.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780472119127

0472119125

OCLC:

844308443