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White rebels in Black : German appropriation of Black popular culture / Priscilla Layne.
Van Pelt Library PT149.B55 L39 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Layne, Priscilla, author.
- Series:
- Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- German literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- German literature.
- German literature--Black authors--History and criticism.
- Black people in literature.
- Masculinity in literature.
- Black people in popular culture--Germany--History--20th century.
- Black people in popular culture.
- Motion pictures--Germany--History--20th century.
- Motion pictures.
- White people--Race identity.
- Black people--Race identity.
- History.
- Authors, Black.
- Germany.
- Black people in motion pictures.
- Masculinity in motion pictures.
- Black people--Race identity--Germany.
- Black people.
- White people--Race identity--Germany.
- White people.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 259 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "Analyzing literary texts and films, White Rebels in Black shows how German authors have since the 1950s appropriated black popular culture, particularly music, to distance themselves from the legacy of Nazi Germany, authoritarianism, and racism, and how such appropriation changes over time. Priscilla Layne offers a critique of how blackness came to symbolize a positive escape from the hegemonic masculinity of postwar Germany, and how black identities have been represented as separate from, and in opposition to, German identity, foreclosing the possibility of being both black and German. Citing four autobiographies published by black German authors Hans Jürgen Massaquo, Theodor Michael, Günter Kaufmann, and Charly Graf, Layne considers how black German men have related to hegemonic masculinity since Nazi Germany, and concludes with a discussion on the work of black German poet, Philipp Khabo Köpsell."--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Who's afraid of the black cook?
- Waiting for my band
- The blues and blue jeans : American dreams in the East
- Two black boys look at the white boy
- The future is unwritten.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Layne, Priscilla. White rebels in Black.
- ISBN:
- 9780472130801
- 0472130803
- OCLC:
- 1012347347
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