The genocidal gaze : from German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich / Elizabeth R. Baer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baer, Elizabeth Roberts, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Witbooi, Hendrik, -1905.

Genocide in literature--History and criticism.

Genocide in literature.

Genocide--Namibia.

Genocide.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature--History and criticism.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.

Postcolonialism in literature--History and criticism.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Herero (African people).

Nama (African people).

Germany--Colonies--Africa.

Germany.

Namibia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 179 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State Uiversity Press, [2017]

Summary:

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 hundreds 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 Genocidal Gaze: From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich, Baer uses the metaphor of the gaze to trace linkages between the genocide of the Herero and Nama and that of the victims of the Holocaust. Significantly, Baer also considers the African gaze of resistance returned by the indigenous people and their leaders upon the German imperialists.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-166) and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780814343869

0814343864

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access